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Discover LudwigThe phrase "agonising experience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that causes extreme emotional or physical pain or distress.
Example: "The loss of her beloved pet was an agonising experience that took her months to recover from."
Alternatives: "painful ordeal" or "torturous situation".
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Doing a PhD can be a challenging and agonising experience, requiring enormous personal investment.
Perhaps the most agonising experience he suffered in this respect must have been the death of his eldest son, Thembi, in a car accident.
The atmosphere is great but the wind that close inshore is unpredictable and led to an agonising experience for Britain's Star sailors, Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson, on Sunday when they saw gold turn to silver in the final 100m.
Early reviews include those by the estimable Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times (" The Last Airbender is an agonising experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented") and AO Scott of The New York Times (" The Last Airbender? Let's hope so").
Ministers may be the spared long nights of pointless debates, but they will still have the agonising experience of judging every proposal – not on its merits nor even its popularity – but on the ability of the whips to cobble together a majority in its favour by bribery, bullying – and sometimes even rational argument.
Renting an office is an agonising experience; it's inefficient, slow and painful.
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That said, despite the agonising nature of the experience, I did actually feel slightly relaxed afterwards.
In many of our towns and cities, "just looking for a toilet" has become a frustrating, sometimes agonising and often expensive, experience.
There were no fairytale endings for this pair while Adil Rashid, throughout a frantic afternoon and evening, experienced more agonising ups and downs than Sisyphus.
The recipient experiences its agonising effects for the next 12 - 24 hours.
Mike grew up in Atlanta and spent time as a crack dealer, an experience detailed with agonising honesty on Run the Jewels 2's Crown.
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