Sentence examples for scale of agony from inspiring English sources
It is a five-point scale of agony that ranges from harmless stings that are barely detectible to the sting of the bullet ant, a "pure, intense, brilliant pain" that lasts for hours.
It wasn't the worst sting possible (we'll get to that), but its intensity surprised him which is surprising in itself, because Schmidt, a University of Arizona entomologist, has been stung over a thousand times and is famous for developing the Schmidt Pain Scale for Stinging Insects, a four-point scale with descriptions of agony that read like hoity-toity tasting notes for Scotch.
We recruited 74 volunteers suffering from joint pain in their knees, and each person scored their joint pain on a scale of 1-10 (10 being agony) – our experts also assessed everyone's range of movement.
That scene remains haunting because it hints at both the agony and the scale of mass shootings.
The tableau is one of agony.
…And now I can hear the notes of agony.
We had wanted blood, crushed bones, howls of agony.
The Rangers invented a new form of agony.
He had experienced mysterious blasts of agony before.
Translation: Day of Agony, Day of Joy.
