Sentence examples for painful practice from inspiring English sources

She was force-fed through a tube through her nose – a painful practice which continues today.

Henman, third in the ATP Champions Race, withdrew yesterday morning after hitting a few painful practice shots.

This agonizingly painful practice is common in Asian brothels, where customers sometimes pay hundreds of dollars to rape a virgin.

Millions of diabetics need to take blood samples regularly by piercing their fingers -- a time-consuming, somewhat painful practice that some people shun.

When the rest of the Knicks called it a day after a long and painful practice today, Marcus Camby hobbled onto the floor with a sneaker on his right foot and a walking boot on his left.

In his autobiography, written after he had retired from 30 years of service as an army surgeon, Paré described how he had abolished the painful practice of cauterization to stop bleeding and used ligatures and dressings instead.

But Padilla was arrested three months before Zubaydah was subjected to 17 straight days of waterboarding and other painful practices.

Discrediting and eliminating gay conversion therapy, which often involves painful practices like electric shocks, has become a progressive priority in recent years as other barriers to LGBTQ equality have fallen.

Suzuki, it was, in the first instance, aesthetic: Suzuki's work, though rich in tea ceremonies and haiku, makes no mention of Zazen, the hyper-disciplined, often painful, meditation practice that is at the heart of Zen practice.

Such an "internal devaluation" is possible in theory, but it is unusual (and painful) in practice.

His left knee was so painful after practicing Sunday, it was "impossible," according to his uncle and coach, Toni Nadal, for him to play.