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Example sentences for: throes

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We are taking only two days off, losers that we are, for our honeymoon, since my partner is in the throes of the second round of financing for her company.
You know from the start you're in a grand playpen for horror buffs--full of mists, covered bridges, glowing pumpkin-head scarecrows, black oaks that seem frozen in death throes.
Exactly what is "soft focus" about the bank teller who gets shot full in the face or Gene Hackman's agonizing death throes or Bonnie and Clyde 's final, staccato "dance of death"?
Connelly spent a lot of time picking up shooting victims, crackheads in the throes of cardiac arrest, and homeless drunks--some from the first wave of Reagan-era deinstitutionalization--and bringing them to the overpacked emergency room of what he calls "Our Lady of Misery" Hospital.
But while the Klein who wrote Cigarettes had succeeded in mastering his obsession (by the time he'd finished the book he'd quit smoking), FAT Klein is still in the process of recovering from the throes of diet.