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Example sentences for: painful

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The main characters are too mean to care about, and it's painful to watch everyone pick on Marigold--even her author--whether or not she deserves it.
It could only have served as a painful reminder of his father's still-greater fame, then, when, after losing the election of 1800 to Thomas Jefferson, Adams recalled his son so as not to give his rival the satisfaction of deciding whether JQA should continue in his post.
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.
To avoid more painful and disruptive changes once the baby boomers begin retiring, the time to begin these difficult but necessary steps is now.
tsuris the gamut of painful emotions—some real, some imagined, some self-inflicted.