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Example sentences for: agony

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The Agony of Victory
And the Times is aware of how sadly routine such events have become, referring to the episode's "familiar agony," and reporting that "fifteen suicide bombers have struck in Israel over the last three and a half years, killing at least 140 people and wounding hundreds."
There is no greater agony."
What the agony of Jesus on the cross is to Christians, the Holocaust is to Jews.
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).