Sentence examples for then, painfully from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Tzirer was 14 then, painfully thin, tubercular and alone.

This pretentious prose-poem is how Robert Elms, to stifled giggles, introduced the then painfully hip Spands at the Scala in 1980.

When he came back, the Army doctor informed him that he had two more stones, which he then painfully passed over the next two weeks.

The problem with years of rapid growth is that it hides problems that are then painfully exposed when times are hard.

And then, painfully, the real world will reappear.Ireland in the 1990s became the "Celtic tiger", with the sort of astounding growth rates that used to be associated with Singapore.

The Sept. 11 attacks, and other disasters since then, painfully illuminated the difficulty of locating lost firefighters: mayday calls rang out, but it was often difficult to tell who was sending them.

It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along".

("They're so stupid, so painfully stupid... ") Why, then, did he visit Garsington so frequently, and for so long, inquired a sincerely puzzled Virginia Woolf.

My vow of silence never chafed so painfully, but then I reminded myself that this was why I had sought sanctuary from the grasping world.

But then, at other times, I was so painfully aware of how things were outside".

Then, more painfully, back down the mound.