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How to use the word excruciatingly in a Sentence?

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The benefits of any vaccine far outweigh the risks -- period, this complication from the vaccine is excruciatingly rare. Certainly more people are going to be killed by handgun in the United States than by these complications.

Alex Spyropoulos

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Growing up and trying to figure out your life … while people feel like they have some sort of entitlement to know what’s going on, is absolutely, excruciatingly terrible — and the only way to get over it, is to go into it, you can’t change your face. You can’t change your parents. You can’t change any of those things.

Will Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That system has been excruciatingly tested, successfully, at White Sands, against simulated targets, real targets, and it does the job it was designed to do, they'll fix it whatever it is. And the fact that you have a test aircraft crash, or an aerostat break loose, doesn't invalidate the system.

Chet Nagle

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's very little to do, it was built as a punishment facility. The thing in corrections is that you don't want people to like it there. Some people have been there since it opened, and those people are excruciatingly bored or scared or both.

Leslie Walker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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