agony

How To Use agony In A Sentence

• 'I'll run to them immediately,' cried she, 'for my half guinea is in an agony to be gone!' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
• Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
• For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home. A Channel of Peace
• Recovering slowly, with agony, from each of these recurrent blows, his unquenchable exuberance had lived.
• A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
• My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind. Flowers in the Desert
• The pain, agony and exhaustion were replaced by an enormous sense of achievement and relief as they crossed the finishing line.
• Doctors said that both women were suffering from tension and mental agony, but were physically fine.
• I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt.
• The agony is not quite as exquisite as it has been in the past.