Sentence examples for painfully common from inspiring English sources

The story of Schimanski's opioid addiction is a painfully common American story.

Her story of beatings and threats, reconciliations and divorce — painfully common among Native American women — had a twist.

These bugs aren't painfully common, but they're not rare, either.

News items about a teenager that commits suicide as a consequence of being bullied online are becoming painfully common.

Most instances, however, do not end up being high-functioning partnerships like Jerry/Filo/Koogle or Larry/Sergey/Schmidt, but it can be painfully common to hear about founders who get forced out or replaced by their board or investors.

The scourge of HIV is high, school dropout rates rampant and child marriages painfully common.

An often-overlooked result of crime is that the victim and offender have a relationship they have a painfully negative experience in common.

Over the past five years, we have come to be acutely and painfully aware that our common fall in 2007 and 2008 opened up the possibility that we would be banana-republicked by our compassionate and caring development partners.

Academic governance is often painfully slow, and sometimes tradition trumps common sense when innovation stalls in the name of process.

This is a common condition in which babies painfully regurgitate the contents of their stomach into their esophagus.

The global economic crises have made painfully obvious the detrimental effects of disregarding our common destiny, which cannot exclude those who come after us.