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Example sentences for "agonised"

Lexicographically close words:
agon; agone; agonic; agonie; agonies; agonising; agonistic; agonize; agonized; agonizing
  1. While they were crying with agonised hearts, their tears were wiped and dried up.

  2. Bereaved of spouses and dear ones and filled with sorrow for (the death of) children, men leave this spot every day with agonised hearts for returning home.

  3. She was still holding Leo's head, and, with a face as pale as his own, watching his countenance with such an expression of agonised anxiety as I had never seen before.

  4. Then louder and louder as she did not answer, in a long, agonised cry, "Girlie!

  5. A sudden start an agonised quiver of every nerve--a choking, gasping sigh and moan--and the murdered man lay still in death.

  6. His face, which had remained calm enough so far, assumed a look of agonised entreaty, as with an effort painful to see he dragged himself to my feet and clung to them.

  7. They had reached the steps leading down to the tank when the boy, with a sob like that of a wounded animal, flung himself in agonised entreaty at his master's feet.

  8. In a stifled, agonised voice the boy implored: 'I want to go back to father.

  9. Their hearts melted with compassion for the agonised parents, and they declared that the son must be a rascal to cause them so much suffering.

  10. That woman's scream that had sounded so shrill and agonised in the dead stillness of the night I remembered plainly as though it were but an hour ago-- indeed, I remember it now as distinctly as ever.

  11. The loud agonised shriek which had emanated from that inner room was, I felt convinced, that of the tender, sweet-voiced woman who had administered to my wants.

  12. Of a sudden there was a quick, dull thud, the unmistakable sound of a heavy blow, followed by a short agonised cry.

  13. All the time I was longing to get a sight of the interior of the adjoining apartment, the room whence had burst forth that woman's agonised cry in the stillness of the night.

  14. During this time, Edgar, almost agonised by suspence and doubt, had escaped to the summer-house, whither he was followed by Dr.

  15. She convinced herself again and again that her agonised communing with the night would in some mysterious way affect his heart, to incline it irresistibly to hers, as in those never-to-be-forgotten nights and days at Polperro.

  16. Distraught with agonised despair, and shadowed by Trivett, she walked up the principal street of the town, now bereft of any sign of life.

  17. It was echoed by one deeper and more agonised from the unfortunate father.

  18. The shell passed through her stern this time also, and exploded; there was a shrill scream from more than one agonised throat, and the baling and pulling ceased altogether; every man in her was wounded, if not killed outright.

  19. At length he could endure it no longer and sank to the ground with an agonised groan.

  20. The bandages concealing them from view then fell off, and to my agonised sight were disclosed objects that struck me as strangely familiar.

  21. When I raised my agonised eyes to the rocks, all was silent and desolate: the lady had vanished.

  22. On this hypothesis it follows that Hamlet's agonised soliloquy is not uttered nearly a month after the marriage which has so horrified him, but quite soon after it (though presumably he would know rather earlier what was coming).

  23. In one short hour the weight of a thousand worlds had fallen on and crushed her heart; and when and how was the panacea to be obtained to restore one moment's cessation from suffering to her agonised spirit?

  24. The wild shriek that had startled Clara then burst from the agonised heart of her maddened cousin, and she darted forward to cover her father's head with her arms.

  25. A sudden stillness fell upon the camp, to be presently broken by the agonised scream of a woman, shrill and startling, followed by wailings and melancholy moans.

  26. It was a blood-curdling and almost human cry, and Shad likened it to the agonised cry of a lost soul in the depths of eternal torment.

  27. When the agonised girl had made those final protestations, I had seen her face, and it was in unison with her distracted heartbroken voice, and it was very moving.

  28. Even amid all the horrors of this terrific scene, the agonised Clara preserved her consciousness.

  29. The man who sneered could never appeal to Meg, who was religious to her finger tips, as did the man who fought and agonised and prayed.

  30. There was an agonised moment while the lady-in-waiting presented me.

  31. War is not moving pawns in a game; it is a struggle of quivering flesh and agonised nerves, of men fighting and dying for ideals.

  32. Wild, agonised shrieks, and there were hurried footsteps.

  33. Mrs Alleyne darted an agonised look at her son, and then glided out of the room, when Lucy looked up piteously at Oldroyd.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agonised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.