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Example sentences for: pains

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

The company, for instance, took great pains to point out that demand for its chips was not the problem.
He chews over his past, counts up his debtors, enumerates his aches and pains, and worries the issue of subjectivity to the bone.
To hear those words today pains Pol Pot.
He takes pains to say he is not offering a plan for a perfect society, merely a "framework for utopia" (the phrase is Robert Nozick's).
Despite the growing pains of economic reform, including income contraction and worsening public health, a "free-market consensus" has emerged in the ex-Communist countries.