Sample Sentences forordeal (editor-reviewed)
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She survived a 14-day ordeal stranded at sea.ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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Your terrible ordeal is as good as over, isn't it? (source)ordeal = difficult or painful experience
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Clearly it was an ordeal, raising a goon like Dana. (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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He couldn't understand why Aunt Queen would let him go through this ordeal, especially on his birthday. (source)
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Matthew, however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up, grasping with one thin brown hand the handle of a shabby, old-fashioned carpet-bag; the other she held out to him. (source)ordeal = difficult or painful experience
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They put the women out in huts when their time came, whatever that was; they had no sense of family—I knew that'd distress Aunty—they subjected children to terrible ordeals when they were thirteen; they were crawling with yaws and earworms, they chewed up and spat out the bark of a tree into a communal pot and then got drunk on it. (source)ordeals = very difficult experiences
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Hrothgar is asleep now, resting up for tomorrow's ordeal of waiting. (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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Despite the ordeals and deprivations, his face continued to radiate his innocence.† (source)
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It's been a soul-crushing ordeal, but this seems to be a chance to start over.† (source)
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One of my Sunday morning ordeals is having to lie in bed and look at Dussel's back when he's praying.† (source)
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This has been a terrible ordeal for her.† (source)
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We must never forget, however, the tens of thousands of other children who didn't survive their ordeals, and the millions who are still suffering.† (source)
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For most of the sixteen-week ordeal, nevertheless, McCandless more than held his own.† (source)
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The entire purpose of their ordeals and long journey had been to bring the Geographica to the one person who could destroy it—and they had lost the book mere hours before they'd reached their goal.† (source)
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In this way, she's exactly the opposite of Prim for whom adventures are an ordeal.† (source)
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By degrees then these parties, these tests, for which one had to prepare so carefully, became ordeals.† (source)
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