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How to use the word Agony in a Sentence?

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Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. – Henry Grady Weaver	added by Normando 5 months ago
I hate to say this but yesterday( Saturday) at the end of this show I was just hoping that he would n’t make the cut, that he ’d just finish one outside, not because I do n’t want to see Tiger Woods play, we always want to see Tiger Woods play, but you could just see Tiger Woods was in agony trying to get around there and it was n’t a surprise at all to be honest that Tiger Woods had to withdraw. – Sky Sports	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wish we had died with everyone else so we don’t go through this, we survived only to live this misery and agony. – Jomana Karadsheh/CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m so sorry for the agony and significant financial loss each of you have endured. – Priya Chaudhry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They don’t believe that. They know better than that, this is pure hypocrisy. This is taking advantage of people’s pain, their suffering, their tragedy, their agony … this is taking advantage of that for the worst kind of cheap politics. – Larry Krasner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is ridiculous Other Democratic senators are still willing to avoid what is a scientific truth and turn away, and subject cities and towns all across this country to the same agony the Marshall fire has caused. – John Hickenlooper	Found on CNN 2 years 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
It should be light, but also we go to hell with each other, it’s ecstasy and agony for sure… I don’t want people to think anything’s perfect with us. I didn’t say it was the darkest fairy tale for no reason. – Machine Gun Kelly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That was scary, but that was 10-minutes scary, this was hours of agony. – Don Dottolo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s not just an idea whose time has come; it’s long overdue, we have all seen the agony of a young person arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his or her pocket. And because of the historical over-criminalization of marijuana, they have a very severe criminal record they have to live with their whole lives. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Not having any clarity around potential resolution to the error committed by the testing regime continues to cause mental agony, i hope that the Australian government will act expeditiously to end our misery. – Sunny Joura	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We tried so hard to put humor into it, it was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure. – Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I remember the moment I crunched down on a handful of the ‘sweets’ -- and instantly felt explosions in my mouth, i felt a burning pain straight away. I’m still in agony and nearly lost a tooth after it cracked from the explosion. – Lisa Boothroyd	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Theres no word to describe the agony I feel that shes going through that, knowing theres biotechnology that exists on this planet that could have helped her and could help her still, this will give [patients] a pathway. Even if it doesnt work for them, at least theyre marching toward some type of hope. – Mayank Saxena	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think anyone can listen to Antonio Arnelo Smith crying and wailing the agony Antonio Arnelo Smith's in without their heart dropping. – Nathaniel Haugabrook II	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Imagine the agony of two million more people, how many deaths might flow from that ? – Luke Johnson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Hopefully people hear our story and it motivates them to do the right thing, by doing that, maybe it won't affect them or it won't affect their family but maybe they help another family not endure the pain and agony that me and my sister and our kids and the rest of our family are enduring right now. – Adrian Baker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's nonsense. It's just going to prolong the agony and prolong the suffering, there is no integrity in horse racing. These animals are confined 23 hours a day. They are whipped, they are drugged, they are forced to train at 18 months and they are racing them at two years of age. – Heather Wilson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice. – Linda Bowles	added by Normando 4 years ago
I ended up in agony from the lack of oxygen. It felt like someone was stabbing a knife into my whole body. – Jeffrey Manzanares	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Mr. Dixon performed the operation in 2016 with the mesh but it was unsuccessful and caused her to be in agony, she had a follow-up operation which made things even worse. – Philip Chatfield	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The pain continued to get worse and nobody seemed able to solve the problem, mr. Dixon performed the operation in 2016 with the mesh but it was unsuccessful and caused her to be in agony. – Philip Chatfield	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
There were no anesthetics because they could take any time from two hours to three days to arrive at the hospital. So I was awake when they cut my little finger off. It was pure agony, they weren’t able to reattach it because six hours was too long to wait and they never found my wedding ring finger. I took the little finger home with me — I still have it in the fridge. – Adam Szubanski	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts. – Nicki Ley	added by anonymous 6 years ago

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

– Henry Grady Weaver

added by Normando
5 months ago

I hate to say this but yesterday( Saturday) at the end of this show I was just hoping that he would n’t make the cut, that he ’d just finish one outside, not because I do n’t want to see Tiger Woods play, we always want to see Tiger Woods play, but you could just see Tiger Woods was in agony trying to get around there and it was n’t a surprise at all to be honest that Tiger Woods had to withdraw.

– Sky Sports

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wish we had died with everyone else so we don’t go through this, we survived only to live this misery and agony.

– Jomana Karadsheh/CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m so sorry for the agony and significant financial loss each of you have endured.

– Priya Chaudhry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They don’t believe that. They know better than that, this is pure hypocrisy. This is taking advantage of people’s pain, their suffering, their tragedy, their agony … this is taking advantage of that for the worst kind of cheap politics.

– Larry Krasner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is ridiculous Other Democratic senators are still willing to avoid what is a scientific truth and turn away, and subject cities and towns all across this country to the same agony the Marshall fire has caused.

– John Hickenlooper

Found on CNN
2 years 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

It should be light, but also we go to hell with each other, it’s ecstasy and agony for sure… I don’t want people to think anything’s perfect with us. I didn’t say it was the darkest fairy tale for no reason.

– Machine Gun Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That was scary, but that was 10-minutes scary, this was hours of agony.

– Don Dottolo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s not just an idea whose time has come; it’s long overdue, we have all seen the agony of a young person arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his or her pocket. And because of the historical over-criminalization of marijuana, they have a very severe criminal record they have to live with their whole lives.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not having any clarity around potential resolution to the error committed by the testing regime continues to cause mental agony, i hope that the Australian government will act expeditiously to end our misery.

– Sunny Joura

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We tried so hard to put humor into it, it was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure.

– Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I remember the moment I crunched down on a handful of the ‘sweets’ -- and instantly felt explosions in my mouth, i felt a burning pain straight away. I’m still in agony and nearly lost a tooth after it cracked from the explosion.

– Lisa Boothroyd

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Theres no word to describe the agony I feel that shes going through that, knowing theres biotechnology that exists on this planet that could have helped her and could help her still, this will give [patients] a pathway. Even if it doesnt work for them, at least theyre marching toward some type of hope.

– Mayank Saxena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't think anyone can listen to Antonio Arnelo Smith crying and wailing the agony Antonio Arnelo Smith's in without their heart dropping.

– Nathaniel Haugabrook II

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Imagine the agony of two million more people, how many deaths might flow from that ?

– Luke Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Hopefully people hear our story and it motivates them to do the right thing, by doing that, maybe it won't affect them or it won't affect their family but maybe they help another family not endure the pain and agony that me and my sister and our kids and the rest of our family are enduring right now.

– Adrian Baker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's nonsense. It's just going to prolong the agony and prolong the suffering, there is no integrity in horse racing. These animals are confined 23 hours a day. They are whipped, they are drugged, they are forced to train at 18 months and they are racing them at two years of age.

– Heather Wilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.

– Linda Bowles

added by Normando
4 years ago

I ended up in agony from the lack of oxygen. It felt like someone was stabbing a knife into my whole body.

– Jeffrey Manzanares

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mr. Dixon performed the operation in 2016 with the mesh but it was unsuccessful and caused her to be in agony, she had a follow-up operation which made things even worse.

– Philip Chatfield

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The pain continued to get worse and nobody seemed able to solve the problem, mr. Dixon performed the operation in 2016 with the mesh but it was unsuccessful and caused her to be in agony.

– Philip Chatfield

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There were no anesthetics because they could take any time from two hours to three days to arrive at the hospital. So I was awake when they cut my little finger off. It was pure agony, they weren’t able to reattach it because six hours was too long to wait and they never found my wedding ring finger. I took the little finger home with me — I still have it in the fridge.

– Adam Szubanski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.

– Nicki Ley

added by anonymous
6 years ago

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