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Example sentences for: painful

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

The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
On this view, what Japan needs is a long, painful financial housecleaning.
Or to judge by the mothers: Failing to nurse at night can lead to painful engorgement or even breast infection.
Almost as painful to my sensibility as the pomposity of Derrida-quoting Whitney Program graduates is the smarmy, too-clever-by-half wit of the YBAs.
[1] is an instructive reminder that the first episode of an acute painful Horner Syndrome should prompt imaging of the ipsilateral internal carotid artery, since carotid dissection (as well as other conditions, such as high-grade stenosis) needs to be ruled out.