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Example sentences for: painful

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Grizzleslope during the 1980s had several painful bouts of toenail fungus, she insisted that this had not affected her powers of recollection.
[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.
A few such painful choices rescued what might otherwise have been a disastrous first term.
Mr. Sharp's arithmetic is painful to behold.
President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."