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How To Use painfully In A Sentence

• The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
• The French navy, painfully rebuilt in the 1770s and 1780s, suffered badly from the effects of the French Revolution.
• Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
• But before sleep could sneak one pajamaed toe into the bedsheets of her consciousness, an electric shock jolted her painfully into alertness. The Three Furies
• As you are painfully aware, when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
• Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham.
• I don't know why the film got panned so much - for me it's exquisitely, painfully beautiful.
• Our partnership came to a painfully abrupt end one afternoon when she ran off with me under a metal paddock rail. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
• In recent photos (like this one) she looks painfully underweight, but I'm hoping that's just how her metabolism is rather than any digestive issues or eating disorder. Blah blah blah blah blah & etc.