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Example sentences for: agony

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The agonizers are folks like Elizabeth Dole and George W. Bush, and their agony isn't moral, goodness knows.
What the agony of Jesus on the cross is to Christians, the Holocaust is to Jews.
The best modern prison memoirs-- The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast , Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice , and Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai --are stories about an agony that yields redemption.
Agony, right?
Buying shoes demands sizable chunks of time and money, and the eventual decision generates more existential agony about their looks than about their fit.