Example sentences for: anguish

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

  • With no celebrity ailment too inconsequential to mine for dramatic potential, Friends star Courteney Cox's routine LASIK surgery to correct her nearsightedness is treated with the kind of life-and-death anguish usually reserved for quadruple bypass operations and liver transplants.

  • The Kennedy assassination thus marked the arrival of the romantic myth of the self-sacrificing agent--the myth that Larry Cockell and Clinton's other agents trade on when they publicize their anguish over having to betray the president's trust.

  • The songs are mystic in nature; many narrate the story of Christ’s life, his anguish, betrayal, his crucifixion and resurrection, and others praise the virtues of suffering and penance.

  • In the New York Times Book Review , Nicholas Jenkins says the poetry "articulates with dreamlike clarity not the perfections of European and American culture, but its chronic anguish ...

  • "For many years after the war, the government and people of Japan made no real effort to understand the wrenching experience of war and the anguish of those in other countries," it said.


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