Sentence examples for harrowing hours from inspiring English sources

After three harrowing hours of hugging ever-steeper cliffs and taking more than a few wrong turns, I was ready to get out of the car.

The bleakest film ever made we have just endured together, over two relentless, harrowing hours, and are now so emotionally raw that we know not where we are going, nor do we much care.

On May 5 , 1972 en route to cover a track meet in Quantico, Va., my wife and I spent four harrowing hours aboard a hijacked Eastern Airlines flight from Allentown, Pa., to Washington.

A 12-year-old boy whose heart was pierced by a pencil as he lunged toward his bed to catch a football is recuperating after two and a half harrowing hours of the pencil's throbbing at every beat in his chest.

In two weeks, this town in the coal-rich hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania will celebrate the first anniversary of what people here call "the miracle": the rescue of nine men trapped for 77 harrowing hours in a flooded mine 240 feet below the surface.

This red-brick monument to the boom years of the Polish textile industry is an imposing sight after harrowing hours driving on two-lane roads, interspersed with the sudden stretches of brand-new highway that testify to the country's steady but incomplete climb toward the standards of its neighbors to the west.

A harrowing hour or so later, we come within hollering distance of our fisherman.

IF you're like us, the final harrowing hour of Thanksgiving preparation can leave you feeling like an air traffic controller at Newark Airport -- and starving, besides.

After a second page, Ms. Silverthorn said, "he became arrogant and said, 'You don't know what to look for — you're not a doctor.' " He ignored her third page, and after another harrowing hour she called the attending physician at home.

Having woken up at the harrowing hour of 5 30 to make sure everything was ready to go for a 7am departure, the first deviation from the plan came when the more punctual of our chauffeurs decided he would wander up from his bungalow twenty five minutes late.

Discounting the harrowing hour and a half boat ride it takes to get there, Catalina is the safest, most placid place to unwind.