Sentence examples for painfully realized from inspiring English sources

"We painfully realized the effect on our community was so great we had to do something," Ms. Ragouzeos said.

Anthony Chan, managing director and chief economist at Banc One Investment Advisers in Columbus, Ohio, said, "Going into this confidence report, credit market investors painfully realized that the Fed is facing an economy that just doesn't seem to want to slow down despite the cumulative increase of 125 basis points in the federal funds rate".

I painfully realized mine were too tight for everyday living a few days prior to the preview.

I'm painfully realizing that perhaps we – my friends and I – are parasites, and that a black person can be damaging to a community without realizing the effect.

Because the barely talked about secret that we all come to painfully realize: you cannot have it all, all the time.

The rest of the group is still trying to process what happened when we see him drop to his knees in tears, painfully realizing what this entire journey was really about.

The problem, I realized, painfully — though that might have been the result of a particularly sharp crisp going down the wrong pipe — was with me.

In "Mindy Lahiri Is a Racist," she goes one step further: Not only is cutting down other women selfish and wrong, she realizes, it's painfully clear that taking the side of white men didn't offer her the status she thought it might.