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Example sentences for: painfully

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

And I'd say this was astonishing, except for the fact that selective disclosure remains a painfully common practice.
But he's painfully aware that the "certain age" keeps getting redefined so it's always safely in the future.
Characters often take several minutes to enter and exit the stage, moving painfully slowly in one of Japan’s greatest examples of form over function.
A brown layer of pollution hangs over the city in both hot and cold weather; the seemingly endless hooting of horns down the wide boulevards and the drone of vehicles making painfully slow progress through the narrow streets raises noise levels; and in a city with so many apartments and so little parking it’s no surprise that sidewalks become places to leave your vehicle, and pedestrians must risk life and limb by walking on the roads.
Significant shortcomings within the FDNY's command and control capabilities were painfully exposed on September 11.