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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:

In doing that research, I became painfully aware of how much personal information was already "sloshing around," as you put it.
But then you chide me that the "painfully obvious answer" to my lament is that these changes won't come "if that kind of restriction violates the First Amendment."
Using observational studies to disentangle the adverse consequences of a single toxin from other environmental influences and to promulgate regulations is a difficult and painfully slow process.
But the painfully obvious answer is, not if that kind of restriction violates the First Amendment.
High Crimes is painfully shoddy, even for a book rushed to press.