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Example sentences for: anguished

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

Loughrin's insights run from the profound ("I realized how much Patsy's frilly, feminine decorative taste clashed with that of the young college students") to the truly anguished ("I passed a spiral staircase on my right, shuddering as I realized these were the same stairs where Patsy claimed to have found the ransom note that fateful morning after Christmas").
Rockefeller was caught up in this anguished giving when Avenging Angel Tarbell began to rend his flesh in McClure's.
The LAT says Kacszynski was "unrepentant" and "steely-eyed," and the victims "anguished."
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy.
Nureyev, who was 28 at the time, looked the anguished, searching youth that the story requires.