How To Use Agonizingly In A Sentence

  • I tasted bile and retched again, my stomach jerking agonizingly.
  • So as the Thetis crept agonizingly ahead, the bananas danced malodorously in the stateroom. Hawaii
  • They scored again on the stroke of full time which left them agonisingly close to claiming victory.
  • Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
  • The agonizingly mundane and generic first half of the film seems a decade older than it really is especially when compared to David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, made the same year , right down to the font of the title credits, the cloying score by Charles Bernstein, and the overall Lifetime TV for Women atmosphere. Cujo hates his name
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  • The tortoise crept along at an agonizingly slow speed.
  • Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
  • They'll still be despondent after going so agonisingly close, but that historic first title might not be too far off now.
  • His party had come a long way towards defeating a wartime president only to fall agonisingly short.
  • Two Ilkley penalty shots at goal were agonisingly just wide, but they were hanging on.
  • He then offers four policies that would "offset the revenue loss twice over," though I'm quite sure the CBO wouldn't agree with that assessment: recalling unspent TARP and stimulus funds; giving the president the power to "impound" congressional spending projects in order to spend less; a federal hiring freeze; and "some sort of regulatory forbearance period in which the job-killing practice of agonizingly slow environmental permitting is suspended. Mitch Daniels has a plan
  • Mundy, however, had choked when the title was agonisingly close… on the 18th hole.
  • While the language of law can reach tremendous heights, legalese is more often painfully, agonizingly dull. Pelf
  • For the first time in the 20th century, Britain's agonisingly slow progress towards meritocracy went into reverse.
  • After the goals the game slowed to a crawl and the minutes passed agonisingly slowly for Aberdeen.
  • Progress was agonizingly slow.
  • the progress was agonizingly slow
  • Today the pain of losing his entire noisy, crowded family is still agonisingly raw. The Sun
  • He had been striding back and forth, rubbing his chin in deliberation at an agonizingly slow pace.
  • Two Tinryland shots went agonisingly wide of the mark.
  • It is a similar British institutionalism that has made relations with "traditional" media companies agonisingly difficult. Josh Halliday interviews Mark Rock, founder of Audioboo
  • The word "painless" is important: the idea of euthanasia began gaining ground in modern times not because of new technologies for agonizingly prolonging life but because of the discovery of new drugs, such as morphine and various anesthetics for the relief of pain, that could also painlessly induce death. Whose Right to Die?
  • Johnny Got His Gun, wherein a maimed soldier, rigidly comatose, is agonizingly aware of his surroundings while utterly unable to communicate even a hint of his own sentience to those around his bed. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
  • First a shot slammed against the crossbar then a corner to the back post was met by Lee Ashworth, who appeared to head ball and post simultaneously, with the ball squirting agonisingly outside.
  • With five minutes to go he jinked through three Hertford defenders but his shot sailed agonisingly wide.
  • He's also crashingly, loudly, agonizingly wrong to order the police to confiscate legally owned private property.
  • With the man holding her from behind, we moved slowly, agonizingly slowly, along the narrow hallway.
  • The tortoise crept along at an agonizingly slow speed.
  • Biarritz dominated for over an hour but came agonisingly close to throwing it away after Ulster stormed back into the game.
  • The tortoise crept along at an agonizingly slow speed.
  • The visitors came agonisingly close to taking the lead soon after when an excellent free-kick from Lawrence was met by Pearce whose looping header cannoned off the post before Palace managed to clear. Crystal Palace 0-0 Portsmouth | Championship match report
  • Progress was agonizingly slow.
  • The resettlement process was still agonizingly slow in Magude in the mid-1990s, but naming memoriesnot "garbled" at allwere serving the generation of interviewees rather well. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Announcing his purchase, he is agonisingly torn between arrogant elation and remorseful commiseration.
  • Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
  • And his Wentworth woe was the fourth time this year he had gone agonisingly close.
  • The evening passes agonisingly slowly.
  • Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
  • As Michael travelled agonisingly slow down the pit lane, Brawn watched for Hakkinen to come from the chicane and seize the lead.
  • Sadly, while Franklin sows seeds of reasonable doubt in the early going, before long the answers are agonizingly clear.
  • Alone and agonizingly thirsty, the boy's thoughts travel through his violent past: his father's gruesome murder, his twin sister's abduction, his own thralldom to gangster culture: Everything I remember is too vivid. The Book That Broke the Color Line
  • And now she sat on the floor in her sunny yellow room, where those agonizingly sweet childhood remembrances tickled and tantalized her senses and swept her away from reality.
  • In those days web design for large corporations was well paid, but could be agonisingly slow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mistreatment of child orphans, the poor and the women in this era is viscerally staged, making the audience squirm agonizingly in their seats.
  • But everything, as you agonizingly expected, comes out hunky-dory.
  • Each song seemed agonizingly slow; the lyrics disappeared behind both the tempo and stylistic peculiarity.
  • Any meal at a Roman restaurant that takes less than two hours is an exercise in rapidity; even the simple act of getting the check can seem agonizingly prolonged for first-time American visitors.
  • Keeper Nicky Roberts - who had a good game otherwise - misjudged the catch and the ball hopped tamely and agonisingly over the goal line.
  • Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
  • However, this approach almost proves his undoing as he fails to spot Warne's slider and is agonisingly close to edging the ball to Gilchrist.

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