Example sentences for: excruciatingly

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

  • These seem to me neither funny nor clever, but there are so many of the type that I get the feeling that I may be the odd man out, the one person in the world who finds Thomas Hardy excruciatingly boring: I have a sneaking suspicion that there are many like me but they are too embarrassed to admit it.

  • Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the "double dividend" debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.

  • It's embarrassing to admit this, but while I was walking in to work today half asleep, I actually spilled my corner-convenience-store coffee all over myself, the characters in excruciatingly unoriginal sitcoms and lame romantic comedies often do.

  • The paper's television critic, Tom Shales, is similarly restless: "Who'd have thought," he asks, "that making history could be such excruciatingly ponderous torture?"

  • (Some of the freshest lines in the book come with his description of Oliver Stone's film The Doors , which "offers an inadvertent parody, a portrait of an amateur oracle's excruciatingly dull metamorphosis into a pitiful, drunken slob.")


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