Example sentences for: pained

How can you use “pained” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Two funny, affecting sequences exploit every father's pained awareness of his daughter's unmet needs.

  • (How it must have pained Adams's sense of journalistic integrity to have to mention the name of that perfume in her column.)

  • The other day, I felt obscurely pained to see a pretty girl on the subway with a big silver ring in the middle of her face, hanging from a hole in the central partition of her nose.

  • Prudie is pained by your opinion, as well as by your wish to have her sacked.

  • Each time, Starr looks slightly pained, then says, "In fairness, Mr. Lowell ...


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