Sample sentences for EXCRUCIATING

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Definition

extremely painful—physically as from a toothache or emotionally as from embarrassment

excruciating = extremely painful

excruciating = extremely painful (emotionally)

excruciating = extremely painful

Why, you have saved my life!—snatched me from a horrible and excruciating death!
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
Almost instantly the excruciating pain in his hand had diminished to the throb which was, now, all he could recall of the experience.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

excruciating = extremely painful

The Giver hesitated painfully, as if saying the name aloud might be excruciating.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

excruciating = extremely painful

His walk to our table is excruciatingly slow.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss

excruciatingly = extremely embarrassing

excruciating = extremely painful

Jonas asked him after he had received a torturous memory in which he had been neglected and unfed; the hunger had caused excruciating spasms in his empty, distended stomach.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

excruciating = extremely painful

The eyes of the town are turning with excruciating reluctance toward the new flow and the new era.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
An excruciating tingling filled Eragon's limbs as the spirits raced through his body, coursing down every one of his nerves.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
The pain from his ribs was excruciating, and the current continued to beat him down.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
The pain in his neck was excruciating—his head had snapped back from the impact of Janza's fist.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
Teabing felt the truth come crashing down on him in excruciating austerity.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Arthritis has found my fingers, I am in excruciating pain, and I fear my entries here in your pages, Dear Diary, shall be fewer and farther between.
Stephen King -- Rose Red
"It is excruciatingly cold," I said, and he began to laugh.
Ishmael Beah -- A Long Way Gone
She was an excruciating throb of pain from one end to the other.
Stephen King -- The Shining
The pain is excruciating.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall

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