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How To Use anguish In A Sentence

• Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
• There was a great deal of variation, ranging from the mundanely technical to the anguished plea for understanding and cooperation.
• Sometimes, when people die of heart failure, they first suffer angor animi, anguish of the soul. Times, Sunday Times
• A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
• And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
• It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
• His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• 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
• Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
• Pearl funds are not the only ones to languish. Times, Sunday Times