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How to use the word excruciating in a Sentence?

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We’ve been having quite excruciating anxiety from the threats of the bill. And now that it has actually passed in Parliament, the (LGBTQ) community is quite in fear, there’s a large community of LGBTQ persons in the country, so we can’t just give up. We’ll find different ways of working. We might not be as visible as we’ve been because there are attacks online as well.

Pepe Onziema

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Chuck Schumer introduced legislation several months ago that would allow abortion on-demand up to the moment of birth, like China and North Korea, for the entire nation, what did I do in response? I said at 15 weeks when the baby can feel pain and sucks its thumb that we're gonna ban abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, life of the mother, we're talking almost four months into the pregnancy. It puts us in line with France, which is at 12 weeks. Germany, England is at 14 weeks. Only in Washington is it extreme to protect the baby at 15 weeks from an excruciating death.

Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When we get the ability to come talk to you, I'll go line by line in terms of what trooper did what... what DPS officer. We'll be entirely transparent, the public will have it -- they'll have excruciating details in terms of what we did, when we did it and those gaps.

Steven McCraw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was a serial murderer, and each mention of his name is a trigger to the families he devastated, reopening wounds that we can only hope had finally started to heal, in the truest of ironies, Bulger's family has experienced the excruciating pain and trauma their relative inflicted on far too many, and the justice system is now coming to their aid.

Rachael Rollins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The next day [after filming wrapped] I woke up at 4 in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital, my body just started shutting down the day after I finished ‘Elvis.’.

Austin Butler

Found on FOX News
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

I was shot point blank with a.223 round from the shooter, and I am now missing 90 % of my bicep. This has not been easy emotionally, physically. I'm in constant pain, like excruciating pain that just doesn't go away -- both in my arm, in my heart.

Gaige Grosskreutz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The first few weeks were really excruciating.

Amanda Hayhurst

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s the culmination of three excruciating years, waiting for a result in the trial and waiting to find out if the man who kind of ruined our families and newsroom would go somewhere with the potential to be released.

Danielle Ohl

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I tore my quad somehow… [It was] just a simple stepping over something and I just went down, the pain was excruciating and now I have to get it fixed. But it happens, especially when you get older, you have to be prepared for unexpected things.

De Niro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Being hurt is only superficial. Being fooled is more excruciating.

Clifford V. Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Were talking about families that may have picked out a name -- may beassembling a crib -- and they learn something excruciating and are faced with this terrible choice -- and I dont know what to tell them morally about what they should do, i just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally isnt going to be any better because the government is commanding her to do it in a certain way.

Former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Lois has been a loyal wife, and extraordinary mother, who has had to endure an impossible part of this journey. I deeply regret the excruciating pain this has caused her. my parents taught me as a young child that they would love me unconditionally no matter what happened.

Elizabeth Smart

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There really wasn't anyone in the government who was accountable. They may have cared in many ways, but Jim was at the bottom of a very long list of other tasks for most of the people we met, it really was a very isolating, upsetting, excruciating ordeal.

Diane Foley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My whole world just collapsed, my legs stopped working. My limbs were very clumsy. I was in excruciating pain, screaming the house down.

Carly Jayne Barton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is the most excruciating hellish several months I've ever had... but I think we're getting there.

Kimbal Musk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'm in excruciating pain every day.

Model Lauren Wasser

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I had my ankle injury and broke two ligaments, my foot kind of went out of its socket. I was trying to slide on a clay court at full speed, and it just got stuck. I was actually wearing a brace, and the next day the doctor told me if I hadn’t been, my bone would probably have been sticking out of my foot. It was excruciating.

Caroline Wozniacki

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He had a buzzing sound in his head and an excruciating headache.

Amanda Anderson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I suffered a week of unbearable pain—it was excruciating, like nothing I’ve ever experienced before.

Meabh McHugh-Hill

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The pain doesn't let you sleep, it's just, like, it's excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn't go anywhere.

Marquez Tolbert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Man, it was really excruciating to watch, it was a tale of two halves and we've got to be better than that.

Cam Newton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The waiting was excruciating because you're trying to hold out hope.

Jenn Thalasinos

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The decision to suspend was excruciating and gut-wrenching.

Coast Guard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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