Use "agonising" in a sentence

1. incredible agonising pain that flooded his senses

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2. I mean what would it be like I knew it was a journey you had to take alone but would the pain be agonising, and would I meet my friends Helen and my parents in the next life? As a Christian I had to believe that I would but god and religion got to be questioned seriously when you saw some of the things that had happened in this war

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3. The guard led her through the gate before Raven could answer, and with an agonising bang, the door slammed shut behind her, his last image of her burned upon his retinas

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4. Broshee whimpered softly, convinced she was about to die a slow and agonising death

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5. The last time he’d felt such an intensely burning, agonising pain was when he’d been kicked in the testicles, back in his third year in prison

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6. Jesus’ prayer was of agonising intensity, in that He knew, unlike us, the agony that

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7. Jesus’ prayer was of agonising intensity, in that He knew, unlike us, exactly what was

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8. For an agonising heartbeat, she couldn’t even recognise who had placed them there, but then the realisation swept over her

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9. He could not feel the agonising stretch in his arms, the splinter of pain at his right shoulder

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10. It was the most agonising thing he had ever had to bear

11. The lilting song of the movement stormed Simon’s thoughts for an agonising moment before it stilled again

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12. The consumed wine did nothing to help dull the slow and agonising death that eventually befell him the next day from the fatal wound

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13. So much of your life-energy is wasted in endless debate, procrastination, agonising and worry about the effects of your decisions

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14. He had hardly slept the previous night agonising over what the best plan of action would be and had extreme difficulty reconciling a shutdown which would kill the foetuses with his personal ethical beliefs

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15. Three months sharing food, tent and transport with five others was going to make concealment of my penchant for attractive young men somewhat difficult, so after much agonising I'd decided to come clean

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16. In agonising pain he pushed up on his hands and with an almighty effort was able to get his back off the concrete floor

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17. He pushed back on his arms as hard as he could and after an agonising few seconds was far enough to be safe from the now slowing spread of the sludge

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18. Jane explained what was happening to her guests in the agonising minutes she waited till Emily arrived at her house to pick her up

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19. The guy went down like the sack of shit he was holding his side and trying to deal with the agonising and crippling pain

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20. devastating doubt and the agonising possibility

21. Your death would be slow and agonising

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22. Towards the end of this agonising conflict, devastating thousand bomber raids on German cities had become common place

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23. In this sixth year of agonising conflict there were few who genuinely believed that Germany could still win the war

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24. he was able to free it from its casing one agonising inch at a time

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25. To think he had been agonising all this time about whose

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26. So each bank was going through the same agonising process, trying to discover how and where its infallible security system was failing, or whether it might possibly be an insider, a member of the staff somewhere

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27. An agonising groan escaped my lips as I pulled my bloodied arms around my chest, trying to hold myself together while my heart shattered into a thousand pieces

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28. “I thought we… I didn’t consciously… I couldn’t…” Byron spluttered, the agonising pain of his returned mortality wet and sticky at his abdomen

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29. This way he would stop agonising over the shedding and would be less stressed

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30. ‘What? He was losing his hair and agonising over it

31. He came out swearing and saying that he was throwing the bloody thing out because it was not doing him any good, and that he was only agonising over seeing the sink full of hairs every day

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32. Before long, she was certain that she was about to die as the commander used his full force in carrying out the punishment; the pain was agonising, so she cried out, begging him to stop, gasping through the intense pain that she would confess

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33. How should she be introduced to the servants and elderly residents of the almshouse? Alice was agonising over the point when an open carriage arrived with Betty and a group of midwives

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34. His tongue failed him and he spluttered to an agonising halt

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35. While some students quietly complied and continued their studies uninhibited, some students from disciplined background detest and resist such overtures but not without bruises and agonising tales of anguish

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36. I could not come to terms with the agonising fact that he prefers unremitting exploitation of innocent female students as his choice of pleasure and cynical satisfaction

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37. Months passed before I could physically say that my parents had died, as though somehow it wouldn’t be real until I uttered those agonising words

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38. Instinct told me to pull it out, yet when I took hold of the handle, the pain was agonising, and as I tugged, I found the bloody thing would not move

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39. Over supper I gave Arthur the entire account of the ambush, every detail I could think of with Howell making agonising apologies for not hearing me call the retreat and pull out

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40. Agonising, the torment of learning to ride a

41. Agonising, aware of what they intended, Hanor fell to his knees, crying bitter tears

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42. Her husband wanted her to have a termination and, after days of agonising, she agreed

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43. for the crushing, agonising pain to come

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44. procrastination, agonising and worry about the effects of your

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45. to the desperately agonising conclusion that she

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46. release from within by way of the most agonising and terrorising scream he had ever

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47. victim's body in the torture chambers, their agonising screams sounding a cruel promise to

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48. the agonising desire to remain attached to that nipple for forever…agonising because I

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49. In spite of all his agonising inward struggle, he never for a single instant all that time could believe in the carrying out of his plans

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50. "But when has such a thing happened? I never have anything to do with the police! And why just to-day?" he thought in agonising bewilderment

51. A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul

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52. And what was most agonising--it was more a sensation than a conception or idea, a direct sensation, the most agonising of all the sensations he had known in his life

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53. Now that his face was turned away from the strange flower on the paper, it was extremely pale and wore a look of anguish, as though he had just undergone an agonising operation or just been taken from the rack

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54. In spite of her continual anxiety that the dishes should be passed round correctly and that everyone should taste them, in spite of the agonising cough which interrupted her every minute and seemed to have grown worse during the last few days, she hastened to pour out in a half whisper to Raskolnikov all her suppressed feelings and her just indignation at the failure of the dinner, interspersing her remarks with lively and uncontrollable laughter at the expense of her visitors and especially of her landlady

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55. He did not yet know why it must be so, he only _felt_ it, and the agonising sense of his impotence before

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56. Again after her first passionate, agonising sympathy for the unhappy man the terrible idea of the murder overwhelmed her

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57. "Yes, a means of escape had come! It had been too stifling, too cramping, the burden had been too agonising

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58. Kring hummed a warning, and agonising waves of pain shot up his arm

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59. Dark agonising ideas rose in his mind—the idea that he was mad and that at that moment he was incapable of reasoning, of protecting himself, that he ought perhaps to be doing something utterly different from what he was now doing

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60. "But when has such a thing happened? I never have anything to do with the police! And why just to‐day?" he thought in agonising bewilderment

61. And what was most agonising—it was more a sensation than a conception or idea, a direct sensation, the most agonising of all the sensations he had known in his life

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62. He did not yet know why it must be so, he only felt it, and the agonising sense of his impotence before the inevitable almost crushed him

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63. So in conclusion, agonising is just a waste of time

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64. ‘But when has such a thing happened? I never have anything to do with the police! And why just to-day?’ he thought in agonising bewilderment

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65. only felt it, and the agonising sense of his impotence before the inevitable almost crushed him

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66. ‘Yes, a means of escape had come! It had been too stifling, too cramping, the burden had been too agonising

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67. "No doubt that was because I was drunk," he thought with agonising doubt

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68. On the other hand, what could be compared with the agonising night spent by Ivan Ilyitch Pralinsky on the bridal couch of the unlucky Pseldonimov! For some time, headache, vomiting and other most unpleasant symptoms did not leave him for one second

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69. But why describe my impressions; I sometimes dream even now of those times at night, and I have no dreams more agonising

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70. She gazed at him dumbly with the same look of agonising perplexity, with a painful idea in her poor brain, and she still seemed to be trying to reach some conclusion

71. Now and then he shivered all over with an agonising, feverish tremor

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72. Who's been murdered?" she insisted with agonising mistrust

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73. But to live on with this secret, with occasional meetings, and merely corresponding with him, all hidden from her family, was agonising, and she insisted again that he must take her away

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74. Agonising, sad, depressed state of body and spiritual force, but I know that I am alive and independent of this condition, yet I feel this “self” but little

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75. Gorbunov that it was the gentlemanly state of his life that had become more agonising to him, that he was “ashamed to look in the eyes of his lackeys” and that he wanted to go away

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76. But this game had become agonising to her, all the more agonising because she had a real desire to play it, and because something drew her very strongly to hide herself from Lelechka and to seek out the hiding child

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77. Trevannion tried to raise himself by his right arm, but the limb gave way with an agonising shoot of pain; it was broken

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