Example sentences for: pains

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

  • Scorsese and Schrader are at their most inspired in the raucous theater of the emergency room, in which patients on stretchers scream at one another to shut up, and an admitting nurse (played by Schrader's wife, the brilliant Mary Beth Hurt) takes pains to let the drunks and addicts and failed suicides know just how much they're imposing on her.

  • The Mosetene Indians in Bolivia use the crushed Renealmia alpinia plant mixed with water and rub this preparation over the dog's body to improve its hunting ability [ 108 ] . In Trinidad a leaf poultice or bath or root decoction is used on swellings, sprains, sores, wounds and for stomach pains and malnutrition [ 52 54 65 ] . The purple-red juice from the

  • In recent years the United States and Australia took great pains to cultivate closer relationships with Indonesia's military elite, notably Lt.

  • They now believe, says the paper, that the militiamen took pains to cover their tracks, in one case burning their victims' bodies and then dumping the ashes into crocodile-filled lakes, in another putting bodies in a boat and sinking it at sea.

  • I also take pains so that the people I date remain clueless about others I may be dating.


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