Sample Sentences for
anguish
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    But as I hold Khalil's grandma's hand, I see the anguish in her eyes.  (source)
    anguish = distress or suffering
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    As months passed without any word of Chris, and then years, the anguish mounted.  (source)
    anguish = extreme distress
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    Winnie, struggling with the anguish of all these things, could only sit hunched and numb,  (source)
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    Again and again he dreamed of the anguish and the isolation on the forsaken hill.  (source)
    anguish = pain and distress
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    He looked across the fire at Lennie's anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames.  (source)
    anguished = extremely distressed
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    Farming is always a chancy business, but in western Kansas its practitioners consider themselves "born gamblers," for they must contend with an extremely shallow precipitation (the annual average is eighteen inches) and anguishing irrigation problems.†  (source)
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    That he cannot protect the girl he loves anguishes him greatly.  (source)
    anguishes = distresses
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    Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate (and later Vice President) Alben Barkely of Kentucky told a campaign audience that Taft "never experienced a crescendo of heart about the soup kitchens of 1932, but his heart bled anguishedly for the criminals at Nuremberg."†  (source)
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    "But he isn't Charles!" Meg cried in anguish.  (source)
    anguish = extreme distress
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    Then Tony raises his voice in an anguished cry.  (source)
    anguished = with extreme distress
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    As I saw the anguishing thing of Simon knocked over and bloodied in the gutter, I only listened and didn't speak of Grandma's death, or the furniture, and Mama put out of the house.†  (source)
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    Such chains of ideas and of anguishes cannot be interrupted.†  (source)
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    She was relieved, but still imagined the anguish of the strikers.  (source)
    anguish = suffering or distress
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