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Example sentences for "pang"

Lexicographically close words:
panelling; panels; panem; panes; panful; pangenesis; pangolin; pangolins; pangs; panic
  1. She said something in her own heart that was like a thanksgiving that her father was spared the one pang which the coming of the man he would have her marry, would bring,--that the sea rolled between them.

  2. Hetty felt a pang at the words "little miss," but she knew it was her own pride that had brought this treatment upon her.

  3. Unconsciously to herself she had learned to love the girl, whom she had counted upon having by her side for many years to come, and it was not without a pang that she saw the young figure disappear suddenly out of her future.

  4. It is evident, the reader feels it with a pang of regret, that Eugénie was much less to Maurice than he was to her; and yet he loved her well.

  5. There ran through his mind a sudden pang of fear, but he said to himself instantly that Edith was not one to suspect evil, and she could not possibly know the truth.

  6. She said to herself that she had done all, and been all, that lay in her power; that there was no sacrifice in life she was not ready to make to preserve her husband's love; and the most cruel pang of all she felt in thinking of her boy.

  7. Fenton with a keen pang that yet did not prevent his remembering how like was the cry to that of a great tragic actress as he had heard it in Phedre.

  8. His glance met hers and turned aside with that almost imperceptible wavering which shows the avoidance to be intentional; and a pang of formless terror pierced her.

  9. But the suspicion of the authorities directed toward the Girl--with a pang of bitterness, I think of her unfortunate absence from the country during the momentous period of the underground work.

  10. With a sharp pang I observe the thinning of my hair.

  11. The other letter renewed the pang at common property being at an end.

  12. Rosemary watched the white, plump hands that moved so gracefully among the cups, and her heart contracted with a swift little pang of envy, of which she was immediately ashamed.

  13. She noted, with a pang of disgust, that the table-cover was made of brown alpaca, fringed all around by the fabric itself, cut unskilfully into shreds with the scissors.

  14. Allan, with a sharp jealous pang at his heart, for the man she alluded to was an eligible bachelor, who had successfully resisted the charms of one generation of maidens.

  15. Rose felt a vague pang of pity, but had no opportunity to go to him.

  16. Well, it must be so; it was right and proper that it should be so, and he for one would not flinch from his duty; but he must have been more than human had he not felt the pang of awakening.

  17. A sharp pang of despair went through him as he watched the passionate pale face and the great eyes dim with tears.

  18. Viridis paled thereat, and a pang of fear smote Birdalone, and she swiftly got from out the chair and sat down on a stool; but when Atra opened, it was but Aurea come from her service to bid Atra take her place.

  19. She turned pale, and a pang of anguish went to her heart; but she walked a little east, deeming that perchance she had erred as to the place of the haven on that dull and empty shore; but yet there was no boat.

  20. But as the days, lengthening and brightening in their advance toward spring, go by, the pang vanishes as the fear had done; only yet more quickly, and his visions possess him wholly.

  21. As he realises this, so unaccountable is human nature, a slight pang of irrational regret mingles with the profundity of his relief and joy.

  22. For weeks it takes the edge off his bliss; for weeks he never glances at the addresses of his letters without a pang of dread; for weeks he never turns the handle of his door on his return home from his work without a shiver of apprehension.

  23. It gives Peggy a little fresh pang to notice that this petition is urged as a criminal might urge some request upon his executioner, not as one would beg a boon of a tender friend.

  24. In the prospect of those glorious nuptials, thou needest dread no pang of widowhood.

  25. Surely, in the light of eternity, the heaviest pang of earth is indeed "a light affliction!

  26. Listlessly, laboriously she began to pack, and her husband noticed with a pang that her hands shook wretchedly.

  27. However, he was not one to turn back, and he remembered with a pang the last look he had seen in Ma Briskow's eyes.

  28. But love means suffering, and every pang gave Old Tom a thrill of fierce delight for--"Bob" was coming.

  29. Abruptly he resumed charge of the Briskow purchases, and it gave him a pang to note how Allegheny ran to him with her hurt, as it were.

  30. The pang of parting from you will indeed be terrible, but it must be endured.

  31. No matter what the pang may be--nor what befals me--I will go.

  32. A great pang of pity went through the man, hurting him physically.

  33. Zora sarcastically, yet hating herself for feeling a little pang of displeasure.

  34. Rachel could only weep out her shame and thankfulness, and when Alick reverently added that it was a scheme that would require much thought and much prayer, the pang struck her to the heart--how little she had prayed over the F.

  35. The lull of these few moments was inexpressibly sweet, but the pang that had crossed her so many times in the last two days and nights could not but return.

  36. I felt a severe pang in the idea of quitting my adored mother at a moment when I should stand so much in need of a parent's attentions.

  37. Indeed, I have almost uniformly found my own sex my most inveterate enemies; I have experienced little kindness from them, though my bosom has often ached with the pang inflicted by their envy, slander, and malevolence.

  38. Thou couldst every pang assuage; But when absent, nought could charm me; Every moment seem'd an age.

  39. She pleaded, in excuse of it, the immitigable regret of a widowed heart, and with compunction declared that she flew to intoxication as the only refuge from the pang of prevailing sorrow.

  40. He spied her at last, and was conscious of a momentary pang that he fiercely stifled.

  41. Nick spent a good many hours of every day at the Palace, and they were always on the best terms; yet Olga never saw him go without a pang of anxiety or return without a thrill of relief.

  42. I crawled at a snail's pace, wishing to put off the pang as long as possible.

  43. He was determined she should be his, come what might; but when once he had won the mastery over her, he would make her suffer for every pang of wounded pride or jealousy she had inflicted upon him.

  44. Thwart me, defy me, and the hour will come when for every pang of rage and jealousy I have known thou shalt suffer things of which thou hast no conception now, and none shall be able to rescue thee from my hand.

  45. The sight of her unhappiness touched Graham's heart with a sharper pang than anything else had power to do.

  46. She had not been able to make her happy, and she would leave her without a regret; and the thought gave Mrs. Treherne a sharper pang than she had felt for many a day.

  47. And so it was all for me," said Graham, with a sudden pang of tenderness and remorse.

  48. And a sudden pang of pity for this poor innocent before him brought a tear to the manager's eyes.

  49. It was his own funeral that he followed, clinging to Topinard's hand, to the one living creature besides himself who felt a pang of real regret for Pons' death.

  50. Woman like, she felt a pang in her own heart the instant she had sent forth her shaft.

  51. His voice had kept at the same high-pitched abrupt tone, as if he were speaking under the pang of some physical anguish.

  52. For though her heart was not too sore to be generous, every now and then so sharp a pang struck through it, that her only refuge seemed to lie in such hard thoughts of Anthony as should convince herself that she was indifferent.

  53. She had been speaking in a low, almost humble voice, as if her heart felt a pang of shame in its sorrow.

  54. Mr Robert is a better showman when he is not interfered with," said Anthony, with a sharp pang of remembrance.

  55. And in the midst of his angry despair, by his own act he must deliberately add another pang to his lot, and, putting away his friends, bind himself for life to a woman for whom his strongest feeling was the fancy for a smiling face.


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