Sentence examples for ordeal from from inspiring English sources

A crowd watching his ordeal from the banks cheered.

He kept his ordeal from all but his wife and closest friends.

Crushed on the back seat of the taxi in the stifling heat, the journey was an ordeal from the outset.

For many patients, the defective hips have extended the rehabilitation ordeal from a few months to a year or longer.

Jakub Moravec, from the Czech Republic, survived Thursday's attack with scratches and minor injuries and told of his ordeal from hospital.

(By contrast, Theodore Dreiser's characters of an earlier generation didn't have time for midlife crises; life for them was a continuing ordeal from beginning to middle to end).

One woman recounted her ordeals from behind a screen in the crown court; two others who spoke via a live video-feed from Hungary.

An extract published by Slate last year reveals harrowing details of Slahi's ordeals, from sexual humiliation to the freezing cold cell in which he was imprisoned.

Followers of this ancient and inscrutable philosophy have found themselves at the centre of some of history's most trying ordeals, from the French Revolution to the American Civil War to the prison camps of Vietnam.

But he had started out a much larger man, and doctors found that he was swollen and in pain from the ordeal, suffering from dehydration.

She wrote (with Alvin Moscow) an account of her ordeal from 1974 to 1979: Every Secret Thing (1982).