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Example sentences for: ordeal

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McCain's cleverest strategy has been to associate the anger story with his POW ordeal.
Through this impeachment ordeal, the individual most to be pitied may be Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Worst of all, the toxic underwear from the barbecue sauce ordeal still smelled spicy.
Sullivan's more daring pronouncement that "this ordeal as a whole may be over" is likely to mislead sick people in need of hope.
In every account of his POW ordeal, he absurdly concludes that he "failed" to withstand the enemy's torture.