How To Use throes In A Sentence
- Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth.
- The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
- Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- a country in the throes of economic collapse
- Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife? Archive 2009-09-01
- The ship made a groaning sound in its death throes. The Sun
- If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period - the throes of a revolution.
- Likewise, half said that any man who looked after his appearance was often wrongly accused of being in the throes of midlife crisis. Times, Sunday Times
- Passion that exists from the beginning of time to the end of eternity emerging in uncontrollable throes like the surging and neaping of the tide and the wind
- death throes
