The phrase "agonizing cries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe sounds of extreme pain or distress, often in a dramatic or emotional context.
Example: "The agonizing cries of the wounded echoed through the night, sending chills down the spines of those who heard them."
Alternatives: "screams of anguish" or "cries of torment."
Before echoes of that agonizing cry have died, you hear candy butchers declaiming: "Purity chawklits; here y'are - git yer Purity chawklits!" View Article.
Before echoes of that agonizing cry have died, you hear candy butchers declaiming: "Purity chawklits; here y'are - git yer Purity chawklits!" View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Naomi Fry.
At the Broadhurst Theater in "The Green Hat" as the curtain descends you see Katharine Cornell's anguish as she declaims: "For purity, doctor - for purity". Before echoes of that agonizing cry have died, you hear candy butchers declaiming: "Purity chawklits; here y'are - git yer Purity chawklits!" This article appears in the print edition of the November 7 , 1925 issue.
In the afternoon, the silent human cutting machine paused in its tracks for the first time all day as an agonizing cry echoed throughout the field.
Consumed by my run-in with the dancer, I barely noticed them, until a cry rang out, pained and terrified, an agonizing child's cry that tore into me, as if it were an appeal to me alone.
These are truly agonizing cases".
The child was too weak at the time to be given ether and had to endure the excruciating pain -- "if it had hurt less [he] should probably have cried out". The agonizing experience of this injury left a deep impression on Gibran, and he later described how the episode made him aware of the kindness of the villagers of Bisharri.
The theologian R. C. Sproul states: "This cry represents the most agonizing protest ever uttered on this planet.
"My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" he cried from the cross in his agonizing last hours.
In January, Ohio's execution of Dennis McGuire took an agonizing 24 minutes to complete; weeks earlier in Oklahoma, Michael Lee Wilson cried out that his entire body felt on fire as the drugs entered his veins.
