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Example sentences for: harrowing

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The complex system of one-way streets designed to avoid rather than to reach key government buildings, and the added confusion of curving rivers and canals, make downtown driving a harrowing business even for locals.
Hedges' dispatch includes the harrowing tale of an Albanian woman who fled Prekaz with her five children after her husband was killed.
It makes a daunting subject somewhat comprehensible--and harrowing.
And navigating the rising tide of warm-and-fuzzy holiday programming can be harrowing.
Bruno Doesseker is the real name of a Swiss author known to the world as Binjamin Wilkomirski, a Latvian Jewish concentration camp survivor and memoirist who is now accused of having wholly fabricated his harrowing tale of toddlerhood in the camps.