Sample Sentences for
harrowing
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harrowing as in:  a harrowing story

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  • Apparently before he phoned me he'd just had a long, rather harrowing letter from your latest headmaster, to the effect that you were making absolutely no effort at all.  (source)
    harrowing = unsettling
  • Because he did not water-ski himself, Uncle Alfred thought that the responsibility of the boat's driver was to make the skier's ride as harrowing as possible.  (source)
    harrowing = frightening
  • By his early twenties, he had developed a reputation for a harrowing, damn the-torpedoes approach to ascent.  (source)
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  • Oh, we have imagined the most harrowing things.  (source)
    harrowing = frightening or unsettling
  • These occasions are becoming harrowing times for us all. For each sunrise and sunset opens up some new danger,  (source)
    harrowing = frightening
  • Many survivors wrote about their harrowing experiences in books, newspaper and magazine articles, or letters to friends and relatives.  (source)
  • The sight of him raced ahead of her thoughts, condensing only afterward into distinct, namable feelings, as if her mind were accommodating too slowly the flash of a bright light: overwhelming relief, knowing her son was safe; fury, for his punishingly long absence; bewilderment at his appearance, which spoke of a long, harrowing journey.  (source)
  • But his story was typical -- and just as harrowing as those I had heard from children in the INS jails.  (source)
    harrowing = frightening or unsettling
  • Eventually Darlington got word of his mother's whereabouts and made his own harrowing two-day trek on foot to the camp to reunite with his mother and younger brothers.  (source)
    harrowing = frightening
  • I spent a day bicycling scenic State Road A1A along the Atlantic Ocean so I could report firsthand on the harrowing proposition of sharing the pavement with confused blueheads and distracted tourists.  (source)
    harrowing = frightening or unsettling
  • Shouldn't it be less ordinary, more sordid, more epic, more truly harrowing, this flesh wound of yours?  (source)
    harrowing = frightening
  • This will probably involve many harrowing trials with a high chance of death.†  (source)
  • The most harrowing moment came when we learned that the supply of blood might run out.†  (source)
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