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How To Use painfully In A Sentence

• The gymnasiarch stands watchfully by, swinging his cane to smite painfully whoever, in over eagerness, breaks away before the signal. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
• 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