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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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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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Have you recuperated from that court ordeal yet? (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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Hrothgar is asleep now, resting up for tomorrow's ordeal of waiting. (source)
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It would be, he felt assured, no trifling ordeal. There were some things Matthew could buy and prove himself no mean bargainer; but he knew he would be at the mercy of shopkeepers when it came to buying a girl's dress. (source)ordeal = difficult experience
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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)ordeals = very difficult or painful experiences
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It's been a soul-crushing ordeal, but this seems to be a chance to start over.† (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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There are tests, ordeals, levels of training—look, just forget it, okay?† (source)ordeals = very difficult or painful experiences
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In this way, she's exactly the opposite of Prim for whom adventures are an ordeal.† (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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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)ordeals = very difficult or painful experiences
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This has been a terrible ordeal for her.† (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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Despite the ordeals and deprivations, his face continued to radiate his innocence.† (source)ordeals = very difficult or painful experiences
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For most of the sixteen-week ordeal, nevertheless, McCandless more than held his own.† (source)ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
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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)ordeals = very difficult or painful experiences
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