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Example sentences for: anguish

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

It's the sound of genuine catharsis, of poison being expelled into the air, of bottomless anguish and joyous liberation.
Each of these compositions suggested the powerful currents of one soul's anguish, jauntiness, fragile serenity.
U.S. coverage of the story rapidly descended from humanitarian anguish to material cynicism to petty curiosity.
The interesting and useful entries are those in which the author explains, without the frenetic anguish that pervades the M&S book, why the term is offensive.
In the Upper Basilica, reopened in 2000 after intense round-the-clock restoration, Cimabue’s works in the apse and left transept have turned black, looking like photo negatives because of the oxidized white lead in his paints, yet you can still feel the intensity of the crowd’s anguish in his Crucifixion, blessedly untouched by the earthquake’s damaging force.