The phrase "a harrowing time for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a difficult or distressing period experienced by someone or a group.
Example: "The community faced a harrowing time for several months after the natural disaster struck."
Alternatives: "a challenging period for" or "a distressing time for".
Bradford's cup run is occurring at the same time as the 54-year-old deals bravely with a harrowing time for his family.
Juliet The cyberbullying was a harrowing time for Nell, but what was good was that some of her friends were supportive and took screenshots of the comments as proof of what was happening.
Breaking down several times during the press conference at a hotel near Scotland Yard, the 69-year-old said: "It has been a harrowing time for me, my family and my friends.
"This has been a harrowing time for our country, and it's easy to grow cynical and wonder whether America's best days are behind us, especially after such a crisis," Mr. Obama told a crowd of workers in a hangarlike building, surrounded by racks of battery material.
And hope that you won't be the one It eight, like me.
In 2000, 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War, McReynolds told the New York Times that he feared the war and its accompanying protests had "sunk into a memory hole," and recalled that the period was a harrowing time for him as well as the country.
Media captionMr Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said the attack had been planned "for some while" The BBC's Richard Galpin, near Utoeya which remains cordoned off by police, says that in the midst of Norway's worst peacetime tragedy it is a particularly harrowing time for relatives of the missing.
In one holdup he wounded a police officer and landed in prison for seven years, a harrowing time he vividly evoked.
Jasmin Herold, a German filmmaker who has lived in Fort McMurray for the last two years, had a harrowing time getting out.
A harrowing time followed as she toiled patiently with physios, doctors and medicine balls.
