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Example sentences for: ordeal

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Will a flicker of emotion crease his usually impassive glare as he ponders a she-said, he-said fact pattern so hauntingly reminiscent of his own ordeal five years ago?
Again and again in his writings, Bettelheim insisted that the daunting task of "inner integration" was a developmental ordeal that could be mastered with great struggle, and with the support of good stories.
But whose ordeal is it?
Politicos and McCain's friends say the ordeal made him into a "crusader for changing campaign finance and ...
In it, says the paper, Lewinsky says she's no longer in love with Bill Clinton, that she's through having affairs with married men, and that she wants to apologize to the country for the yearlong political ordeal she helped trigger.