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Example sentences for: painful

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Some of the best writers complain that their best work is the result of monumental mental effort and many painful rewritings.
Enduring a tense dinner out with Ananda Gupta, Kate Wing, and Beth Sherman--a meal marked by painful silences and women running sobbing from the table every few minutes, and thankfully interrupted by Kate Galbraith calling the Health Department and having the joint shut down.
Its precursor was the now quite obsolete strangury (1398) `slow and painful urination.
But since its Aug. 12 announcement, Dunlap has been teaching the association a painful lesson in the realities of the market.
Do they have an open marriage in which his extracurricular activity is accepted, or is each new revelation a painful surprise to her?