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.

  • Those excruciatingly clean-cut and perfectly clad cinematic female bodies can seem to suggest a world unwilling to acknowledge the existence of adultery, homosexuality, racial strife, female lust and rage, political and cultural revolution, family dysfunction, or messy passion of any kind, not to mention irreparable loss, unbearable pain, and death.

  • He reads excruciatingly slowly.

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast