Words similar to agony

Example sentences for: agony

How can you use “agony” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Buying shoes demands sizable chunks of time and money, and the eventual decision generates more existential agony about their looks than about their fit.
Henley endured years of agony, and his poem, Invictus, was truly written from experience.
There is no greater agony."
No greater agony than what?
The dead Jesus in his mother’s arms emphasizes the agony rather than the pathos portrayed by the Pietà in St. Peter’s in Rome (see page 61).