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How to use the word anguish in a Sentence?

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I was in mental anguish, it felt very inhumane for both our baby and for my wife.

– Rachel Joy Barehl Beth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I came into existence, naked yet clothed with innocence and unaware, bathed with my mother’s blood, old folks heard me cry and were so glad. I came not into this unknown sphere by my own will and I will not leave of my own will but i will drink the wine of the mystery and become drunk with anguish, fear and love. So short, so precious a life, a fragile life under threat.

– Alexis karpouzos

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1 year ago

So little of what we observe is Actuality. Do we see/hear the words pouring forth? Are they Truth? I wish and hope but my future is predestined per my parents’ belief and that is denial and death, the deepest pits of hell, the thorniest of crowns, no sympathy, simply guilt, pain, anguish and lament. Call me your Anti-Savior and I’ll take on your pain too.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I came into existence, naked yet clothed with innocence and unaware, bathed with my mother’s blood, old folks heard me cry and were so glad. I came not into this unknown sphere by my own will and I will not leave of my own will but i will drink the wine of the mystery and become drunk with anguish, fear and love. So short, so precious a life, a fragile life under threat.

– Alexis karpouzos

added by alexiskarpouzos_1
1 year ago

The misuse of mobile location and health information -- including reproductive health data -- exposes consumers to significant harm, the exposure of health information and medical conditions, especially data related to sexual activity or reproductive health, may subject people to discrimination, stigma, mental anguish, or other serious harms.

– The Commission

Found on CNN
1 year ago

we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

– Lauret Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

On the video you saw the defendant spank( her) four times, and you saw the absolute anguish on( her) face as he spanked her.

– Elizabeth Geddes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

How generous is dance, it barters your moments of anguish and gifts you joy equal to lifetimes

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

Mr. Cox thought he could hide behind the anonymity of the internet to terrorize his young victims, causing them untold mental anguish, but this sentence is a clear message that those who engage in sextortion will be held accountable for their heinous actions.

– The FBI

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

All the anguish that we’ve been through for the last eight years, I’m not happy about, i just hope MedicWest changes their ways.

– Jack Giacalone

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

– Chrissie Hynde

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We recognize that none of this happens in a vacuum, and it is righteous to vent that pain and anguish in the form of peaceful protest. But what happened last night was neither peaceful nor was it a form of protest that moves us forward.

– Jacob Frey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The thing is if you accept this oh Im sorry and you move forward and a week down the road, we find out my husband has COVID, whos paying the hospital bills? Whos paying all the expenses and the stress and the mental anguish that comes with it?

– Laurie Graham

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

With the words in Strange Fruit I just wanted to speak to everyone's hearts and acknowledge the pain and anguish everyone is going through right now. I know this ain't usually my message and you're not used to hearing this from me, but this is the person I've always been, a Young Black Man.

– Trey SongzRB

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard. Now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world - and the world is watching.

– Tim Walz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire, the fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard. Now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world - and the world is watching.

– The Democratic governor

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are receiving many calls, the situation opens many new doors, many are due to panic attacks, anxiety about confinement, insomnia, and anguish over economic issues.

– Claudia Borensztejn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The first time they came to me, there was nothing but tears, anguish and anger.

– Flavie Villanueva

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and when she gives birth, we steal her baby even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable and then we take her milk thats intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.

– Joaquin Phoenix

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are in the business of holding people accountable. And I hold Matt Gutman accountable for a terrible mistake, which I deeply regret, i want to personally apologize to the Kobe Bryant family for this wrenching loss and any additional anguish my report caused.

– Matt Gutman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He seemingly never recovered from the anguish he saw her go through at the hands of the British press and the critics, he seems to have pledged to never let that happen to his wife and children.

– Natasha Eubanks

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the midst of such profound anguish, one memory fills us with hope, when evil showed its hideous face, Americans of all walks of life rose up -- and they did, they rose up -- they defied fear, they stared down death to protect the innocent. And stand tall they did just for righteous and for good.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was the beginning of a barbaric trade of human lives, today in honor, we remember every sacred soul who suffered the horrors of slavery and the anguish of bondage.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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