How To Use Ordeal In A Sentence

Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable.
Some of you may be surprised to see Mr. Jerrold here in person-in as much as our notice card intimated that he had been "liquidated" - which process we have come to understand in recent years is somewhat of an ordeal. The Present Condition of England
From his side of the racial divide, the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
To the surprise of many, he remains at the helm despite this most depressing afternoon of a season that has become an ongoing ordeal by fire. The Sun
Her ordeal began in November when she started having fits and convulsions despite no previous history of health problems.

He said the trek had been something of an ordeal over difficult terrain and there had been days of miserable weather with wind, rain and snow.
Thankfully she had been spared the ordeal of surgery.
There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
Five years ago lunch at this inner-city school was an ordeal rather than a pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
But few investors could see a similarly swift end to their ordeal. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
Normal routines like going to the shops became a terrifying ordeal. The Sun
He says that one of the most difficult aspects of the entire ordeal has been the cloud of suspicion that continues to hang over his head.
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During this ordeal he was able to draw strength from his faith.
As to her own ordeal, Henry told her there was a name for the strange, shifting images you see just before sleep: they were called hypnagogic hallucinations, and they often occurred in connection with sleep paralysis. Incubus
I hope they catch the dangerous criminals who put her through such a life-changing ordeal. The Sun
On his forehead a narrow, inch-long indentation from a rifle-butt remains as a souvenir of his ordeal.
After barely surviving her ordeal, the young woman began years of reconstructive surgery.
The harrowing ordeal was to last two hours. The Sun
It takes incredible strength for a woman to relive her ordeal in court. The Sun
In 1990 he climbed Everest, following the footsteps of George Mallory, and lost five stones in weight through the ordeal.
I had been driven down this highway on the way to my military induction ordeal.
A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
All I can think is, what a terrifying ordeal. The Sun
Gardai said the victim was very shocked and traumatised by the ordeal but didn't require hospitalisation.
He is very pious and self-reliant, which is provocative of bigotry and hot temper; and surrounded and approached on all sides by clever and often unscrupulous financiers and speculators, his scutcheon has worn wonderfully well, and his character and reputation passed through many fiery ordeals. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
Raynal's Wrecked on a Reef is an articulate account written with great attention to the accurate recording of all the nasty, demanding details of their ordeal.
When we asked the secretary that evening how he had liked the ordeal he said he could hardly describe his feelings whilst it lasted, but when the shelling ceased it was the heavenliest sensation of his life. With Steyn and De Wet
The victims have suffered a horrendous ordeal and quite appalling injuries in the case of Mr Francis.
It was the only bank to emerge unscathed from that ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
The entire ordeal is influenced by the coal lobby on one side and anti-nuclear forces on the other ... but simply streamlining nuclear licensing while prohibiting coal for municipal power will cost nothing and reduce emissions with none of this emissions trading beurocracy that seems to be more and more popular. Global Warming Heretics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Since this apparent blow up, things have been smoothed over with the two groups, but there were a few things that left a bad taste in my mouth about the whole ordeal.
He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health. Henry’s Demons
He called it an "example of supreme respect for human rights," while also saying the ordeal has been cause for "great self-criticism. Venezuela: Prison uprising ends after 27 days
And also if it's bible related wouldn't the title fit more of a Revelations ordeal? Monstrous Poster - High Res
They will talk of prisons in Greece, of frightful justice systems, and of a nerve-racking ordeal which the enthusiast is never likely to forget.
Selkirk’s ordeal is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.
Before fleeing the scene, after the 30-minute ordeal, the men stole property from the victims' handbags.
When is the last time we heard of a trial being interrupted by someone who steps forward to confess to the crime because he cannot bear to subject an innocent man to further ordeal?
Just what we needed after the morning's ordeal by double bass and piano. Times, Sunday Times
Her dauntless attitude was partly the result of surviving a near fatal ordeal in Bali six months earlier. Making Wall Street Blush
Someone identified as the Canadian owner of a smart car has posted details in an online forum about the terrifying ordeal his "smarty" endured. Boing Boing: April 24, 2005 - April 30, 2005 Archives
Despite her ordeal, she seems to have suffered no ill effects.
One would have no quarrel in taking into account the factor of saving the prosecutrix the ordeal of giving evidence.
The couple arrived at court together in a united front after vowing they will come through the ordeal and will put it all behind them.
How these two, and the other 31 miners, will be changed by their ordeal is something friends and psychologists are grappling to understand. Writing Home, 'New' Miners Emerge
At a news conference yesterday, the two men described their ordeal.
Perhaps hearing the voices of those who survived this ordeal would humanise it for the rest of us.
But the most dangerous ordeal involved a pit dug into the ground. Times, Sunday Times
This is the fourth time the prime minister has faced ordeal by egg .
I leave behind a number of acquaintances and two close friends who have lived every moment of this ordeal with me.
Chile rejoiced, but the miners' ordeal was only beginning. Times, Sunday Times
The priest who took the ordeal by _corsned_ received a bit of bread or a bit of cheese which was loaded heavily, by way of sauce, with curses upon whomsoever should eat it falsely. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
The worst manifestation is when the whole ordeal gets used to demonstrate how God made used the whole ordeal to make the survivor a stronger person! Your Right Hand Thief
However, ultimately it might be argued that neither her self-imposed privations nor apparent solicitude qualifies as a genuine ordeal.
He had survived the infamous ordeal on the raft and had privileged information to impart. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs Kerr was too upset to take part in a reconstruction of her ordeal.
The Leeds defenders who played were subjected to a dispiriting ordeal.
They were very lucky to be alive and survived their ordeal almost unscathed.
For her to have survived such an ordeal was remarkable.
For him, the ordeal was happily and triumphantly over; the sympathy of friends, the enthusiasm of the public, greeted his acquittal from the false charge which was to wreck him. English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
Thus began an ordeal in which Autry hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit.
I think the most memorable thing for me would be the chilian miners ordeal. NYT > Home Page
A woman who suffered a 48-hour kidnap ordeal may have been the unwitting victim of an underworld drug debt row sparked by a string of recent seizures.
It is one thing to survive a terrible ordeal and another to learn to live with the fallout.
By way of preparation for his examination the sophist was required to be diligent in attending disputations in the parvise, and when he presented himself for his own ordeal he had to make oath that these exercises had been duly performed. The Customs of Old England
You've seemed to remain upbeat and postitive throughout the whole ordeal. Moving Along Nicely
The overnight sleeper train from Hanoi to Hué starts off as a giggle, and ends up as an ordeal.
Since that traumatic ordeal, he and his mother have been subjected to two hold-ups at their home, the last occasion, the criminal was holding a knife to my godson's neck.
I was told that many less robust animals do not survive the ordeal.
I woke with a thumping head and flashes of being through a painful ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
At last the ordeal was over. Christianity Today
The crew had its first training session in February, a four-day ordeal which was deemed a success despite windy and unsettled conditions, with winds getting up to 38 knots at times.
But their ordeal ended when the pharmaceutical firm behind the research was sold. The Sun
Now, looking back on the past few tumultuous years, he can glean a glimmer of satisfaction from what he calls his ordeal by humiliation. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
I hope they catch the dangerous criminals who put her through such a life-changing ordeal. The Sun
At least I would be able to go home and get some sleep, a luxury unavailable to Alan, Sam, and many other senior Bear Stearns people, not to mention the bankers and bankruptcy crews who had settled in for an allnight ordeal. The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
For these octuplets, I also hope they all live and don't end up with life-limiting debilities from their ordeal. Baby Boom
She was through all the ordeals now, and had only the journey to accomplish.
In men, the scars often indicate social standing or physical ordeals of individual valour.
Patrick feels like this is some medieval ordeal, some game with the pilliwinks and gyves. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Throughout the ordeal his spirit never broke.
I must be permitted to register clearly the general conviction that if black magic, sorcery, and the Sabbath up to date had been merely revived demonomania, had been merely concerned with the black paternoster, the black mass, or even with transcendental sensualism and the ordeal of the pastos, the Roman hierarchy would not have taken action as it has, nor would the witnesses concerning these things have been welcomed with open arms; as a fact, no interest whatsoever is manifested in the doings of diabolists who operate apart from Masonry. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim.
She was determined that ‘never again’ should families go through the same ordeal and became a founder member and national coordinator of the National Committee Relating to Organ Retention.
The children showed no signs of trauma after their ordeal.
The couple returned to thank local Thais who helped them survive the ordeal.
These were, the oath upon the evangelists; the ordeal of the cross and the fire ordeal, for persons in the higher ranks; the water ordeal, for the humbler classes; and, lastly, the _corsned_, or bread and cheese ordeal, for members of their own body. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
I rarely had an outward scar to show for my painful ordeals. Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
He spent hours in tears and suffered a heart attack when forced to relive his ordeal for the book. Times, Sunday Times
Kapande: another ordeal plant, but used to produce ‘diaphoresis’. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
To someone for whom discussion of my habits was a terrorising ordeal, this easeful moment is a long time coming. Times, Sunday Times
The fugitive bird was finally nabbed between 1pm and 2pm last Thursday but is said to be recovering well from the ordeal… with the help of 60 hens!
For pedestrians the crossing of Teeling Street is a daily ordeal.
Back then farmers were worried that the hedgecutters might destroy their hedges and often asked for guarantees that the boxthorn was going to survive the ordeal.
Support from other abuse victims and the police had helped her to cope with the ordeal of the trial, she said.
I am so "simpatico" with dogs (I took my two elderly Bichon Frisé girls with me to Vancouver for company & the comfort they always bring me) that Smokey's ordeal and the picture of Braise barking & crying over him just tore at my heart ... Contretemps - French Word-A-Day
Isabella had given her aunt, mother, and sisters a full narration of her ordeal whilst she bathed.
Mr. Campbell says his ordeal with the ministry was not triggered by a malcontent offspring, but by the estranged mother of his eight children, who range in age from one to 13.
Their ordeal ended when a bank security guard spotted something suspicious on a television monitor and raised the alarm.
Giving evidence was an ordeal but the trial 's outcome was a huge vindication. Times, Sunday Times
In the past few years, flying has become such an ordeal that take-off and landing now reduce me to a quivering, sweaty-palmed wreck.
The boy, who was conscious throughout the ordeal, suffered fractures to his left leg and a broken nose.
Though she could still climb, and even ice climb, hiking became an ordeal.
In the absence of positive evidence of guilt, and sometimes despite of it, the accused was bound to clear himself by compurgation or by the ordeal.
We laid Ron to rest in Arlington National Cemetery; by then I was so exhausted and grief-stricken after the terrible ordeal that I could hardly stand.
The grueling eighteen-mile portage around the natural wonder, however, was a month-long ordeal with many days spent in preparation and eleven days in transit.
As if the ordeal of a trial were not bad enough, he and Dolores must now face an arguably worse fate.
I felt people would be judging me and I would have to relive the whole ordeal again. The Sun
No one experienced the ordeal of those first few years more acutely than his first wife, Linda.
The ordeal of one of the families, the Pancars from Turkey, began seven years before.
Each party had to state his case under oath, and doubts as to the guilt or innocence of the accused person were resolved by either compurgation or ordeal.
On the second day of my ordeal, so facing the laughers, I found myself facing straight into the monocle of my half-brother and ill-wisher, Prince Caravacioli. The Beautiful Lady
But he said he had been subjected to'a very unpleasant ordeal '. Times, Sunday Times
Contact with the outside world was non-existent during his month-long ordeal.
Staff morale must be sapped by the ordeal of coping with crisis conditions day after day.
During the trial the McNeils put their victims through the ordeal of giving evidence.
Staff morale must be sapped by the ordeal of coping with crisis conditions day after day.
She wouldn't want to put them through the ordeal of a huge ceremony.
He was hungry, tired and sore from his ordeal in the sea, but knew he must press forwards in order to survive.
You mean that fully 7 out of every 10 women who are told they have a suspicious mammogram and are scared withless into enduring a grueling stereotactical needle breast biopsy have gone through this whole ordeal for absolutely nothing? Task force rejects routine mammograms for women age 40-49
He had survived the infamous ordeal on the raft and had privileged information to impart. Times, Sunday Times
A spokesman said: ‘This totally unprovoked and motiveless assault was a terrifying ordeal for the young man who had just finished work and was making his way home.’
Yet Christian women have endured a yet more fearful ordeal to their tender affection, watching, supporting, and finding unfailing fortitude to uphold the sufferer in agonies that must have rent their hearts. A Book of Golden Deeds
Wayne's account of his ordeal was published in On the Level, the quarterly journal of the multi-storey freaks.
On successfully reuniting the family, she was amazed to witness it swim off apparently none the worse for its ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
No doubt he is moved by the ordeal his own fellow countrymen are going through, but he never acts on emotion.
The worst ordeal was having to walk through dimly-lit corridors on my own to go to the gents.
They are also to receive counselling for the emotional effects of their ordeal.
Described as a local family man and highly experienced police officer, he was said to be shaken but unhurt following his ordeal.
Throughout the ordeal, no one said a word except for a single monk they encountered in the sanctuary. The Thieves of Darkness
The judge condemned him for failing to plead guilty to all the charges and putting his young victim through the ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formulæ and indigestible dates – unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea. The Story of My Life
Mrs Kerr was too upset to take part in a reconstruction of her ordeal.
The teen said he was given bread and water four times during his ordeal, adding that he was once given a pack of Bourbon biscuits for the entire day.
Otherwise, I am not even watching the daily reruns on cable of "Grey's Anatomy" -- my own body and midstream ordeal is swallowing the lion's share of my focus right now, and as Stuart Smalley would say, "That's okay. Archive 2009-11-01
Dreadfully overcrowded trains and frequent cancellations made commuting an ordeal.
I think the point of this whole ordeal, is that he commutated someone in a case where he is 100% complicit. SurveyUSA Shows Decisive Opposition To Commutation
So now he and his wife can concentrate on recovering from their shared ordeal.
They put him through a miserable ordeal and scuppered his chances of a high-flying career in the force. The Sun
This callous brinkmanship has become an annual ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
Despite his terrifying ordeal, he was largely unscathed. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile details of her ordeal emerged from escaped and released hostages. Times, Sunday Times
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Trapped Chilean miners 'letters suggest their ordeal is changing them. Writing Home, 'New' Miners Emerge
The judge gave him credit for pleading guilty which spared the girl the ordeal of attending court.
For the unsuccessful ones, their ordeal simply fades into public oblivion.
In the letter he told of Barbara's battle to recover from her horrific ordeal.
The widower denied the charge - forcing his victim to relive her ordeal before a jury. The Sun
Through the whole stressful ordeal the employee should also have had time to notice if there were: street, house or office noises in the background, whether there were animal sounds, or even the chink of crockery.
He was not successful in his early life at home, where business is a harder ordeal, and with fewer of the "flukes" that cross the path in young colonies. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Compared to Tennyson, her inestimably more modest but equally self-elemented textual incrementation of historical destiny at the close of Middlemarch begins in the imagination of other secular ordeals presenting (and notice the vocalic escalation) a Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
They would survive the Ordeal in the safety of their suboceanic Keeps as they had done for uncounted generations. The Abode of Life
Attorney Vincent Romano, who represents Porcelli hopes that Buoneto recorded the intense discussion that he had with his client in August, on the last day of what the lawyer described as a tumultuous and terrifying two-week ordeal for Porcelli, who has a 19-year-long history of anxiety and depression, according to the attorney. Jerry Capeci: Feds Went Down Low to Make Mob Sex-Trafficking Case
Only the bravery of Sinitsin saw him through an ordeal which many another boxer would have ducked out of long before the end.
However, the largest crime in this ordeal is the response of the people who act as if they are so crushed by his actions. Ryan Mack: Man vs. Message: What We Can Learn from the Eddie Long Story
The ordeal of the last two hours had been stupefying, but now he gathered his wits and followed the other vehicle gratefully as it led the way back down the narrow road to a fork, where it turned onto an upbound trail. The Cat Who Moved A Mountain
They are all reported as being unharmed by their ordeal despite one of the Llandudno coastguards describing the flooding as the worst he has seen in the area.
At each repetition one in like manner steps aside, and the one who survives the ordeal until all the rest have been "chapped" or "titted" out is declared "it" or "takkie," and the game proceeds forthwith. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
Most were more than willing to talk about the ordeal of the last few days.
If he still maintained his innocence, he was able to decide between two ordeals: water or iron.
The ceremony was an ordeal for those who had been recently bereaved.
Ordeal by fire required suspects (usually freemen) to carry hot irons, or to walk blindfold and barefoot through red-hot ploughshares or over heated coals.
I hope they catch the dangerous criminals who put her through such a life-changing ordeal. The Sun
The donkey, an eight-year old female called Manya, was "still very friendly" and had not become frightened of humans as a result of her ordeal, according to those now caring for the animal. Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news
The judge condemned him for failing to plead guilty to all the charges and putting his young victim through the ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
Survivors described their harrowing ordeal to reporters.
A brain-dead pregnant woman on life support has reached the milestone in her pregnancy where doctors believe the baby could realistically survive outside the womb, giving her family renewed hope about the devastating ordeal.
The Grail contained a supremely powerful force, but before it could pass completely into his possession, he would have to suffer a final ordeal.
She survived the ordeal with cuts and bruises and has been praised for her tenacity.
Her ordeal lasted little more than a minute. The Sun
But she said Dr Williams remained in good spirits despite the ordeal of the hearing.
Dressed in a white shirt and black skirt with her hair in a single ponytail, she gave a calm but chilling account of the ordeal she and Peter Falconio went through in July 2001.
Many other independent documentarians worked in Sarajevo as well, making remarkable films about the city's ordeal.
Leading the prostrations became a joy, rather than an ordeal.
And if you have any words of wisdom, or advice about how to make the coming ordeal any less painful, feel free to let me know.
It's understood a number of customers in particular were very badly shaken after the ordeal although nobody was physically injured.
True, children are resilient but going through that kind of ordeal is bound to leave some scars.
Just days later, on December 12, the coachman was helped into the operating theatre - situated rather inconveniently directly above the hospital's boardroom - to begin his ordeal.
We are enchanted by Bauby's poesy; we wonder at the courage of a man who can mentally survive his ordeal; and we experience frissons of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God horror down our spines.
You've come through the ordeal with flying colours.
The family faced their ordeal with dignity and courage.
The ordeal of Didier's first month on the island and the nights of feverish sleep had wasted the old ecologist. RUSHING TO PARADISE
After the police became suspicious of her story she was taken aside and was able to tell of her ordeal. Times, Sunday Times
The three men that pillaged the home of John Smith of Tombrien, and subjected the elderly man to a terrifying ordeal made off with only a small amount of money.
This whole ordeal leaves me in dispair for the soul of the character and any shred of faithful treatment to the literature. Check Out the New CONAN (The Barbarian) « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
In the courtroom families of the victims variously sobbed hugged and smiled, as an end to their ordeal came closer.
Faced with this ordeal, I applied for a humanitarian assignment and re-enlisted.
Every time it ends up being even more of an ordeal than the previous time and I am really sick and tired of them to the point where I just feel like picking up a stick and chasing all of them out of my life.
But the trial by ordeal through which he must pass is a fair one. Times, Sunday Times
Heroes, according to the mythologist Joseph Campbell, test themselves, put themselves into unfamiliar territory, risk their identity, and come back from an ordeal or adventure with a gift for the community.
The ordeal has affected both her mental and physical health.
Charley had emerged from his ordeal more devoted to me than ever while I was now free to rebury Samson in the nostalgia drawer of my memory. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
His father told reporters outside the courthouse that he may file a lawsuit over the ordeal.
She's going to share a dark secret that could help others who've gone through the same ordeal.
I thought given the circumstances it was best to keep you well anesthetized during your ordeal.
Her ongoing ordeal is hardly a picnic, but her fatalistic humor gets her through.
The 23-year-old freelance journalist refused to go into detail about his brief but traumatic ordeal as a hostage.
Presented by the Sarcoma Alliance, the self-dubbed solo "operetta" fits the presenter's probable goal of providing a very light, cheerful take on Lustman's ordeal. Undefined
A surge of adrenaline shot through Lieberman as he thought: This is what I hoped for, this is what I dreamed about and, uh-oh, this is just the beginning of a long and grueling ordeal that can end who knows where.

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