agony

in a sentence

He was very still, and for a moment I thought in agony: He's dead already.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

In the end he sat with the windbreaker pulled up, brushed with his hands and took it, almost crying in frustration and agony.  (source) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987

Fans crackled, feet shuffled, tobacco-chewers were in agony.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed, 2003

What agonies this woman endured, Marie-Laure cannot guess.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

and Seth, howling in agony .  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

Jagged torn place in their spirits that lets the small flying agonies pass in and out.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

He groaned and twisted in agony.  (source) David Almond, Skellig, 1998

A great fish was thrashing in its death agonies a few metres away, but Jeff scarcely noticed it.†  (source) Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End, 1953

The agony of pain was more than I could bear.  (source) Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, 1972

Then the boy brought in the tea, and Mary suffered fresh agonies over the cups and the tin tray.†  (source) Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 1950

Two shadows, below, thrashed in agony.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962

I knew nothing, then, of the nightly agonies at the dinner table.†  (source) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944