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Example sentences for "excruciating"

Lexicographically close words:
excretes; excreting; excretion; excretions; excretory; excruciatingly; exculpate; exculpated; exculpation; exculpatory
  1. And still Garry felt himself sinking; the room was blurred; the excruciating agony of tortured nerves melted into a lethargy that swept through him.

  2. Each jarring step was an individual and excruciating torture.

  3. They direct and witness the most excruciating tortures; the people, as M.

  4. She was seized by an excruciating pain, a spasm so agonizing that she thought, "I am going to die!

  5. The maid did not answer a word, but fixed her wild eyes on her mistress and gasped for breath, as if tortured by some excruciating pain.

  6. The sufferer used one or two more Eskimo expressions, suggestive of excruciating agony, which are not translatable into English.

  7. It gave him excruciating pain, but he was too much of a man to mind that.

  8. After enquiring, and being told that he was gone, Dorriforth returned to his own apartment; and with a bosom torn by more excruciating sensations than those which he had given to his adversary.

  9. Here the excruciating anguish of the father, overcame that of the dying man.

  10. This letter was another of those excruciating pleasures, that almost reduced Miss Milner to the grave.

  11. The torture, the excruciating pain, and the mental anguish of the human female before his eyes, defied his Martian power of expression.

  12. I now remember the most excruciating cholic, and divers other pangs which I thought nothing of at the time, but which must have been the effect of the deleterious solids and liquids which I was daily introducing into my stomach.

  13. I have opened my mistress' letter to add, that she died this evening about a quarter past eight, in excruciating torments.

  14. Even more excruciating was the way in which the Right wing of the Russian Parliament permitted itself to make sport of Judaism and things Jewish.

  15. The defiance of his look made Mr Gordon angry, and he inflicted in succession five hard cuts on either hand, each one of which was more excruciating than the last.

  16. It caught him on the knee-cap, and put it out, causing him the most excruciating agony.

  17. A copper cap was made, heated red hot, then fitted to his head, and his brains were literally fried out, he dying in the most excruciating tortures.

  18. Our phrase, want of moral courage, really denotes in the young an excruciating physical struggle, often so keen that the victim clutches after liberation with the spontaneous tenacity and cruelty of a creature wrecked in mastering waters.

  19. This first attacks the extremities, but soon affects the entire body, and gives rise to excruciating pains.

  20. At times my feet and knees would feel like ice to the touch, and at other times I would suffer the most excruciating torture, seeming as though every nerve in my body was being seared with a hot iron.

  21. The muscles are soft, the eyes are dull and expressionless, and the little sufferer experiences the most excruciating torments.

  22. The patient is suddenly seized with excruciating pain in the right side.

  23. Then I was taken with a severe pain in my back and general nervous prostration; could not move myself in bed nor bear to be moved by the most careful nurses without experiencing excruciating pain.

  24. Many sufferers have been, by a brief course of our home-treatment, relieved permanently from excruciating sufferings that had been a source of annoyance and loss of time for many years prior to the use of our remedies.

  25. Poisoned by the mineral in the water, had I glutted my appetite with them as I intended, I should doubtless have died in the wilderness, in excruciating torment.

  26. The night after my arrival at the cabin, while suffering the most excruciating agony, and thinking that I had only been saved to die among friends, a loud knock was heard at the cabin door.

  27. Still, the idea of Jim in ignorance, nourishing hopes, perhaps, while his little lass lay there dying, was an excruciating one.

  28. I can only compare them to the excruciating agony of being slowly frozen to death.

  29. With set teeth I stood trying to bear up against the sudden paroxysm of agony, but so excruciating was it that it proved too much.

  30. The feature of it that I best remember was a vivid literary discussion based upon Lothair, which was the new book of the hour, and from which our host read excruciating extracts.

  31. The young man, in excruciating agony, died in the arms of the monarch.

  32. A small pimple appeared on his left thigh, not larger than the head of a pin, but from its commencement attended with excruciating pain.

  33. It underwent months of ill health, and many moments of excruciating agony, before the cause of its trouble was suspected.

  34. My first day's experience in this species of farming, was excruciating agony.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excruciating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; agonizing; atrocious; biting; consuming; cruel; deadly; desolating; distressing; excruciating; exquisite; extreme; gnawing; grave; hard; harrowing; harsh; heartbreaking; heartrending; hurtful; hurting; intense; keen; painful; piercing; poignant; pungent; racking; severe; sharp; shooting; spasmodic; stabbing; stiff; stinging; swingeing; tormenting; torturous; vivid