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Example sentences for: ordeal

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The "six-to-eight-week trial" metastasized into a 76-day ordeal spanning 11 months with dozens of witnesses and thousands of exhibits.
The lead story recounts the tense White House countdown to testimony, speculates on how Hillary felt during the ordeal (betrayed, then stalwart), and dissects the legal equivocations in The Speech.
When I say that Batman & Robin is a punishing ordeal, I want you to know where I'm coming from.
As punishment, Stephanopoulos has to go through the ordeal of another deposition and pay some of Klayman's legal costs.
Lewinsky delivers her canned message in the interview's opening seconds: "I waited a long time to be able to express to the country how very sorry I am for my part in this past year's ordeal.