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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.
For just ¥620 you can lie down and have hot sand raked over you by a grinning, grandmotherly attendant — a ten-minute ordeal you’ll never forget.
Through this impeachment ordeal, the individual most to be pitied may be Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Now McCain is running from the character issue: His Vietnam ordeal, detractors allege, left him irascible, unstable, unfit for the presidency.
We are pleased to report that Sarah's ordeal is over (or possibly just beginning): Alice McCrum was born Feb. 2--8 pounds, 4 ounces.