How To Use Pained In A Sentence

I moved slowly, feeling soft fabric around me, though my body pained me.
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
Tears tickled her tired eyes as she slid down the door her wild hair curtaining her pained face.
He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.

He looked her in the eye with a pained expression and said ‘Madam, no one chooses red frames’.
A pained expression dulled his features, and he shook his head. One Summer Evening
And you, Tanis Half-Elven, have degenerated into a liar," Elistan remarked, smiling at the pained expression Tanis tried desperately to keep off his face. Test Of The Twins
Not only has she been in great demand, but her youthful on-screen tendency to look pained and always on the verge of tears has been replaced by a saucy, aggressive, womanly tone.
It had been making these pained groaning sounds for a week or so now, but seemed to be responding to the well-placed kicks and turn-it-off-then-turn-it-on-again fixit method that I apply to all electronics.
He looked down at it, more puzzled than pained, then struck her a backhanded swipe that had her stumbling back towards the door. EVERVILLE
Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
The shop assistant looked a little pained. Times, Sunday Times
Her whole face shriveled up into a pained, dried-apple doll expression.
The first was a familiar swell of pained and wincing why-oh-whying as it became clear that the Premier League's most consistently infuriating club would not win a trophy this season: talk of callowness, foreign-accented surrenderism and a crucial absence of Anglophone chest-thump. Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
Shylock engineers a position where he can punish his enemies on their own terms and his merciless resolve to take what is his is articulated with pained eloquence.
He was pained by the abject poverty and the trouble women had to undergo to fetch water for the families.
I'm not prying, "Antimodes explained, seeing a pained expression contort the child's face. The Soulforge
‘Her father told me, ‘I'm sorry horsewhips are a thing of the past,’ ‘Charles recalls, still pained by the memory.’
More often than not her exasperated and slightly pained expression could only hint at the atrocities I had committed upon her native tongue.
Stewart's pained expression was frightening testament to the quality and precision of Hatton's work.
His face looks shocked and pained but he soldiers on. The Sun
She seemed okay with the direction of the conversation, but it looked as if something physically pained her.
His name on her lips sounded so distressed and pained.
All that's left is a pained lyricism, which is sometimes brilliant, but can also feel so self-regarding and wet. New Statesman
The speaker looked pained, as if I'd suggested putting ketchup on my croque-monsieur.
I sat up slowly from my huddled position in the corner, flexing my pained ankle experimentally, and my movement caught the attention of my protector.
Jo smiled at this description, but seemed correspondingly pained by it. BEHINDLINGS
His face shows little emotion but, if it did, it would have looked pained. Times, Sunday Times
It could account for the pained expression on his face, the knitted eyebrows and his cross-eyed look of concentration.
It pained me to make my lines in the shadow of anger and aggression I often felt in our household.
She was deeply pained by the accusation.
This public acknowledgment of Ted's disability pained my mother.
Like, I didn't expect it to happen right away,' he answered with pained exaggeration as if he was addressing a simpleton. BETTER THAN THIS
Sazar's face became pained and he stood up, starting towards Zax.
The wound still pained him occasionally.
Jason's face turned an awesome shade of violet, almost like the large earrings I had chosen to wear today, and he emitted a low, pained groan.
When he came back to our room he wore a pained expression on his face.
The contestants, audience and the other judges looked pained. The Sun
Just as he moved his wrist a shooting pain engulfed his whole hand, bringing out a pained expression on his face.
Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis.
As she grasped hold of a rail, her mind seemed to haze as her wounds were pained by every push and shove.
I am pained to know that whatever feelings or ideas I may have will ultimately suffer grammatical confines; however, I am equally pleased to discover a new word (possibly from another language) that holds a previously unattained meaning. National Grammar Day 2010: Ten More Common Grammar Myths, Debunked « Motivated Grammar
Her sobs died away, her pained expression softening.
It is an outstanding performance from Colin Firth, not especially because it is a departure for him, but because the part itself is such a perfect match for Firth's habitual and superbly calibrated performance register: withdrawn, pained, but sensual, with sparks of wit and fun. The Guardian World News
Their leg muscles felt cramped and pained when they all stood up.
Brooke lifts a hand to his chest, a pained expression on his boyish face.
The long, elegiac camera movements with pained moments of concentration on detail make the lens into the eye of a narrator and effectively take us on the tragic journey which is Hamlet.
Her sobs died away, her pained expression softening.
He remained silent and she watched his face; he looked so pained and distressed - completely emotionally drained.
It is well known that if you seize a deer by this "holt" the skin will slip off like the peel from a banana -- This reprehensible practice was carried so far that the traveler is now hourly pained by the sight of peeled-tail deer mournfully sneaking about the wood. In the Wilderness
His hair was matted with sweat and he had a pained expression on his face.
I get worried when I see ministers looking more pained and needy than the people they serve. Christianity Today
He emitted a pained hiss through a mouthful of blood, the type of noise a poisonous snake would make after being cloven in half by a farmer's spade.
Shop girls tend just to look pained and bemused when you ask if there are any trousers in stock that rise a bit higher, since they're oblivious to the exigencies of approaching middle age and the effects of gravity on untoned flesh.
Consequently I spent the rest of the week on a beach on an island in paradise with a pained expression on my face, and unable to move around without squealing.
Hot air rises and is vented out of the building, expained Steven Hergert, a senior associat at Gensler; the system uses 20% less power than conventional systems. Forbes.com: News
His head spun and his body pained in various areas until he was forced to lie once again and sit up with a slower pace.
And what is the space of time to look backward upon, between an early departure and the longest survivance! — and what the consolation attending the sweet hope of meeting again, never more to be separated, never more to be pained, grieved, or aspersed; — but mutually blessing, and being blessed, to all eternity! Clarissa Harlowe
‘Wages are going up and up,’ he points out with a pained expression.
Rina dropped to her knees and cradled her older sister in her arms, calling out her name in a pained voice.
He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
My foot motherboard grows a monkey is develop wart very pained!
These individuals look pained if you ask whether they chose this sideline under the influence of TV makeover shows. Times, Sunday Times
She pained a mustache and a goatee on him and laughed heartily at her accomplishment.
Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
Sometimes the stomach is torpid along with the pained membrane of the head; and then sickness and inappetency attends either as a cause or consequence. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Ash's face finally went from a mask to a pained expression.
Ask a fashion editor how many clothes she has and she will look pained. Times, Sunday Times
He again raised one delicate eyebrow, a pained expression on his mobile face.
Newman's pained performance is a slightly heavy-handed but compelling version of the Marlon method.
I looked around the room again, this time avoiding the mirror, although the pained expression lingers on Leil's face until I make a conscious effort to smooth it away.
Her eyes glazed in a pained gaze, and it tore at my soul like thousands of barbs.
I had noticed him make the movement before, and wondered if perhaps an old wound pained him there.
The office slowly filled up with pained expressions.
Beverly Clarenden saw only the matter-of-fact, visible things, no shrewder, braver, truer plainsman ever walked the long distances of the old Santa Fé Trail than this boy with his bright face and happy-go-lucky spirit unpained by dreams, untrammeled by fancies. Vanguards of the Plains
He looked rather more pained at the suggestion that England are the underdogs. Times, Sunday Times
At times, her pained face is so pathetic and real, it's cringeworthy.
Later he retired because his wounds pained him, but he spent the last year of the war on a privateer attacking British shipping.
Nigel and Fergal look on with a variety of pained and reverential expressions - at one point actually sitting in pews while a survivor reads to the congregation from the Bible.
Daniel stopped halfway upstairs and looked at her with a pained expression on his face.
‘I didn't come here to listen to audience members talk about motorcars,’ he said in a pained South African drawl.
Speaking eruditely, with a pained, hangdog expression, Mr. Kumar described his descent from the pinnacle of the business world to become a self-admitted felon aiding Mr. Rajaratnam. Motive for Stock Leak Can Be Respect, Love
But he was inspired by the enthusiasm of a man who feels with extreme ardor, and when he was met by the partly ironical dilettanteism of Dorsenne he was almost pained by it, so much the more so as the author and he had some common theories, notably an extreme fancy for heredity and race. The French Immortals Series — Complete
He was distinctly nervous of orthodoxies and almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems.
We all look at him with pained expressions but he doesn't notice us - he's too busy chatting with his colleague.
The wound still pained him occasionally.
She didn't notice how he flinched at her touch, almost as if it pained him.
The monologuist looks at the audience with a pained look. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Most Jewish Greek Myth:
As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering.
The boots stared the honest silk-mercer out of countenance, and, it must be added, they pained his heart. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Too pained, too drunk to turn up to his labouring jobs, he dips into the $4,000 he had saved to buy her a diamond ring.
Her injured arm pained her sharply.
There is a long silence before he slowly says, in his cracked and pained voice; ‘There was one.’
He closed his eyes, as if the word visitation pained him. My Devilish Scotsman
These are two very different audio mixes (the older track fast and furious, the new one with a deliberate, pained vocal and wailing guitar).
The more she recalls - and she seems to have a vivid grasp of details - the more pained she seems by her weakness and denial.
It pained me during the lead-up to Iraq to hear how many people around me thought Saddam was responsible for 9/11. Think Progress » Sarah Palin admits to questioning whether Saddam was behind 9/11.
In the next shop, Stephanie had hardly crossed the threshold when she caught her foot on raised piece of carpet and fell to the floor nursing her ankle and with a pained expression on her face.
I wanted to see it so much my chest ached and pained with the frustration.
Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
A pained, urgent expression was deepening on his face like a plea that Carla did not know how to answer.
The old man left the prison, much affected and deeply pained for the condition in which he found him, he in fact feared mental alineation. The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion.
They are almost all weepies, with slow or more upbeat stories of pained love affairs, parting and regret, and are thoughtfully sung, with Dalgleish often playing the partner who has angrily pushed off, answering back like Carter singing Jackson. My Darling Clementine: How Do You Plead? – review
Harold's pained expression changed rapidly to one of anger.
I chuckle at his pained expression and say, ‘I'm sorry, my dear brother, my foot must have slipped.’
Secondly, Ryder recurrently nailed the more pained aspects of the human condition with laser-like insight.
No, the pained look that flashed across this scrupulously polite man's face seemed to be the result of a hard law of human nature. Times, Sunday Times
The woman's face was drawn into pained mask.
Her eyes are pained and deadened, but somehow sad and regretting.
She was pained when you refused her invitation.
When he ends up taking the option of quitting, 1,576 miles into the race, Ms. Snyder seems genuinely pained; she is too much a fan to mention the word hubris. Coast to Coast in Eight Days
It pained me to leave her like this, but - but - I was adrift in a sea of uncertainty.
I was pained to see that our very history and epics had barely created a ripple in the minds of most people.
She heard the slide of his zipper and her heart seized, the pulse skittering in her throat as she gazed up at his hungry face, his expression stark and pained. My Soul to Keep
Clary glared at him, but he was looking past her, his expression angry and pained. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
This was how he remembered her, rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death.
I must tell you about my hand: you think the swelling more important than it is; the two middle fingers were much as now for some weeks before you left, but with the thumb and forefinger I could still do much; now the forefinger is as powerless and pained as the other two; that is all the difference, but a conclusive one, for one can do nothing with only a thumb! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
It is an allusion to a woman in travail, that is pained to be delivered, and welcomes her pains, because they hasten the birth of the child, and wishes them sharp and strong, that the work may be cut short. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Over the way was the flaring sign of an unpained dentist, making promises never to be redeemed, and two doors away the old stand of the artificial limb-maker. V. V.'s Eyes
But his face looked pained. The Sun
Mention that fight to Silva and a pained expression creases his face. Ottawa Sun
At one level his brother’s inconsolability pained and angered him. Kalooki Nights
For a moment he looked pained, as if it was too hard to explain, but then he began. The Times Literary Supplement
‘All the adults have commitments in the Tribe,’ she explained, struggling to hide the pained expression in her eyes.
The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment.
Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
His leg pained him more than he was willing to admit, and his side was sending small sharp jabs of discomfort as if to remind him of its presence.
Yanking and twisting her foot frantically to get it uncaught, Isis let out a pained noise in her throat as her hands slipped from the opening, and she fell down onto the floor.
This deeply pained my friends, not because they particularly loved America, but because the activists had no conception of Iraq's suffering under the dictator.
The quiet conversations are followed by overloud street noise, which causes everyone in the room to grab their ears in pained agony.
To see him with such a pained worried look in his eyes; my heart gave a light twinge.
I declined the offer of what Patten calls "refection" also, tho 'I needed it on coming down stairs; for it had pained me very much to get thro' that interview. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
The last thing I saw was Eddie's pained face and then I was pulled from the car by uncaring, ungentle hands.
A relative, who to protect the surviving girl's identity could not be named, said she felt deeply pained by the incident.
For thirty seconds the camera close-shot her face, which morphed from an almost pained expression to a dim smile.
He sat stiffly, with a pained expression on his face .
The piercing screech from the next room was so immediate and pained that it snapped me to instant alertness.
He reached up and stroked her breast feathers with one finger and smiled, a pained look on his face forming.
Laverne is lying in bed, her breathing shallow and pained. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
They also show the New Yorker a welcoming-but-pained sympathy, as if he's rushed home with bad news, only to find a passel of neighbors and friends waiting to tell him something even worse.
Had I not known the whole chain of events, or had she not seen how much I was pained and disturbed by her teasing insistency, she would never have thought it worthwhile to soothe me with this frankness — even though, since she not infrequently used me to execute commissions that were not only troublesome, but risky, she ought, in my opinion, to have been frank in ANY case. The Gambler
His pained expression implies childlike insecurity, his shambling unsophistication contrasting with the intensity of the competition.
She greeted her parents' guests with a broad smile, but looked pained to find her parents arguing. Times, Sunday Times
Pained at this ‘inhuman tree-felling’, a tiny group of tree lovers has been involved in the task of greening the city.
At first, weeding the garden pained me as I had grown to love the rambling weeds and all the wonders that they had to offer.
Does it matter if friends you haven't seen in awhile horrify you with new faces that look pained when they smile if their hearts are still huge and filled with love? Carine Fabius: In L.A., We May Be Plastic, But...
I asked him innocently, mentally shoving down the pained expression that tried to break through.
‘I think there was humour in that,’ he says with a pained expression.
I ran into the room expecting to find him staring at me with the pained, guilt-ridden expression he wears when his enthusiasm or passion has taken him in the "wrong direction. John Riofrio: What a Doll's Broken Arm Taught Me About Parenting and Privilege
The TV presenter shakes his head and looks a little pained. The Sun
Lain's eyes completely washed over with emotions and for some reason it pained her physically for she had never ever felt any kind of emotions but anger.
He gave a pained smile. Times, Sunday Times
They give us a pained smile and shrug. Times, Sunday Times
He looks a little pained discussing it. Times, Sunday Times
face had a pained and puzzled expression
A pained expression lit his face and grabbed his head in pain.
She just did not want to accept the full depth of meaning that lay in his pained green eyes.
It also involves relish or delight, and Edwards followed Locke and Hutcheson in thinking that, like a feeling of tactual pressure or an impression of redness, being pleased or pained is a kind of sensation or perception.
Muttonhead's condition was still nudging him in the back, and it pained him more than any physical scar he had incurred.
Whenever Harold falters, Albert produces one of his pained, sorrowful looks and laments about being a burden to him.
Much as it pained him, he and a Times staff assistant shredded his notebooks and file folders, unspooled all of his tapes, filled two tall trash cans with the material, and burned it.

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