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Example sentences for: painful

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Equal percentages of subjects with more than 11 painful tender points were found among responders and non-responders.
There are so many painful emotional and logistical details surrounding the nightmare of a divorce--the search for good counseling, the brouhaha about how it will affect the kids--that no one ever really talks publicly about the ways in which people are often forced to part with a lot of their money.
Strain (1588), in the sense of `trickle,' as a painful or slow urination came early to refer to urethral inflammation.
Some of the best writers complain that their best work is the result of monumental mental effort and many painful rewritings.
Smith slyly echoes Scorsese's film when Rickman's Voice of God, attempting to convert the reluctant Bethany to his cause, explains that Jesus didn't take it any better when told of the painful destiny that awaited him: "I had to deliver the news to a scared child who only wanted to play with other children."