Sentence examples for to agony from inspiring English sources
noun
Violent contest or striving.
- The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. —Thomas Babington Macaulay.
His apotheosis, it now seems, has led only to agony.
But when it comes to agony aunts, it may well be true.
We depend on ourselves, but it's going to agony just like this game was.
Experiencing death, he returns to the mortal plane addicted to agony.
Roddick's emotions swung from ecstasy to agony when equanimity was what he was desperately seeking.
The attraction to difficulty, to complexity, even to agony is real enough in an intensely bookish young man.
Along the way, he has won nearly 900 games and experienced the ecstasy-to-agony pendulum that has ranged from winning the national championship in 2003 to dealing with N.C.A.A. probation and a postseason ban in the early 1990s.
In order to write honestly, I've had to admit to some agony.
Imhotep was sentenced to immortal agony, condemned to suffer the Hom Dai curse, having his tongue removed and then being buried alive with flesh eating scarab beetles.
They appealed for international pressure to be maintained on Afewerki: "Listen to our agony.
But all of that was mild compared to the agony of watching my handsome, vigorous son kicked to the ground.
