Sentence examples for agonizing loss from inspiring English sources

American tennis fans are likely to think of France's Nicolas Mahut with a certain wistfulness — the melancolie that attaches, in sport, to any agonizing loss.

At the first sight of the Mets' relievers, the Pittsburgh Pirates pounced, dealing the Mets a 7-6 defeathataturneded a peaceful, intimate evening before 18,554 fans into an agonizing loss.

After several seconds, James L. Dolan, the chairman of Madison Square Garden, waved Layden forward, and the Knicks officials departed the Compaq Center, trying to digest another agonizing loss.

From the qualifying matches he needed to win to reach the Open until his agonizing loss, on Sunday, to Spain's Pablo Carreño Busta — 7 6 (2), 7 6 (4), 7 6 (3) — the Canadian lefty phenom rallied fans with boyishly daring tennis.

"This agonizing loss will be felt for the rest of our lives," the actor told TMZ. "Sage was our first child and the center of our universe and I am humbly begging for all to have my son's memory and soul left in peace".

The Knicks returned to New York on Saturday physically beaten up and coming off one of their most agonizing losses of the season, a 106-105 defeatothethe Kings in Sacramento.

But the move irked shareholders still stuck with agonizing losses on their investments.Nevertheless, Google's willingness to reset more than 8 million stock options at lower prices is likely to spur similar gestures by companies hoping to motivate their employees during a demoralizing recession.

It was another agonizing personal loss for a climber's family.

Three years after his agonizing playoff loss at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, S.C., Brian Davis took the lead in the event with a six-under-par 65 in the opening round.

As any computer user knows, disks fail, leading to agonizing data loss.

The Yankees lost all three games in that series, culminating with Thursday's agonizing 18-inning loss.