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Example sentences for "goadings"

Lexicographically close words:
goa; goad; goaded; goading; goads; goal; goalkeeper; goals; goan
  1. In the excitement of seeing the wonders of London I had found some relief from the goadings of conscience, and from the terrors of the future.

  2. I got up and drank nearly half a bottle of Smith’s old sherry, which stupefied my brain, and gave me the needed rest from the goadings of conscience and the terrors of the future.

  3. Shall I escape the goadings of conscience and the charge of blood-guiltiness?

  4. Each one of you has doubtless some excuse at hand, or he could not escape the goadings of conscience.

  5. They are unacquainted with the goadings of thy conscience and the bitter retributions which thou art daily suffering.

  6. This unhappy girl escaped from the upbraidings of her parents, from the contumelies of the world, from the goadings of remorse, and the anguish flowing from the perfidy and desertion of Colvill, in a voluntary death.

  7. It was a clever trick of the premier to escape the castigations which he knew the opposition would inflict while the nation was smarting under the goadings of mortified pride.

  8. They saw the preparations for departure, and were persuaded that the enemy, smarting under the goadings of disappointed pride and ambition, would perform some signal act of vengeance before leaving--probably set fire to the city.


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