Sentence examples for have pained from inspiring English sources

Enoch's teeth had been crooked and brown and must have pained him for years.

"Recent events have pained me and dealt a lesson in humility.

But it must surely have pained him to recognize the price his church was paying for being "a house of prayer for all people".

Townshend's unease with certain aspects of rock stardom may have pained him but it kept him relatively stable throughout the band's early years.

Knowing my father-in-law's passionate zeal for his native reds, matched only by his disdain for those of France, I understood how this admission must have pained Massimo.

The problem did not seem to be ill will on the part of either of the participants: both Oprah and Franzen seemed pained by the idea that they might have pained each other.

Christina is forty-one and has pained, empathic dark-brown eyes.

This is a very important issue and one that unfortunately has happened, and has pained us and pained our allies.

For years, it had pained detectives that no relative had come forward to claim Baby Hope, who was between the ages of 4 and 5.

It had pained him to watch from afar on television, to see the horrid video on YouTube, a roadblock, a machete swung at a head.

He said he still kept up with some former teammates, especially Andy Pettitte, whose involvement in the Roger Clemens legal saga has pained him.