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Example sentences for: ordeal

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I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.
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?
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.
Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.
Exhausted by the ordeal of trying to deny poor people a capital-gains tax cut, the editor turns this space over to his colleague, Cyrus Krohn: