How to Use agonized in a Sentence

agonized

adjective

• Claudel sheared off the head and arms and one knee, leaving the feet planted on the ground to support the woman’s body, a choice that emphasizes the agonized curve of her back, with its perfectly articulated spine.
  — Farah Peterson, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2023
• Neither species seems that pleased with the offering, though Maple June still, with an agonized look on her face, wolfs raw lemons down.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• The agonized screams of family members could be heard from the parking lot outside.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
• The look of agonized disappointment on Ford’s face as Han dies is more wrenching than the character’s plunge to oblivion.
  — Vulture, 10 July 2023
• Mia is badly shaken to find a half-dead kangaroo on the road, its agonized groans prompting Riley to beg her to put the animal out of its misery.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2023
• His agonized screams were destroying the other soldiers’ morale, so Odysseus left him behind.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
• The caricature paints a portrait of agonized men photographing their wives in front of brick walls and picturesque houseplants.
  — Jillian Goltzman, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2020
• Garfield’s entire agonized thought process—his love for his wife, his worry about the future, his hurt pride at being unable to provide for her—dance over his face in a matter of seconds.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
• Andrée, a free spirit, grows ever more high-strung and extreme, to the point of self-harm and illness, while Sylvie proves an impotent witness to her friend’s agonized decline.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Her world turned upside down, however, when the phone rang again at 3 a.m. Calls at that hour rarely bring good news, and this one, from an agonized Sand, changed their family’s life in ways that are still unfolding.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• These are big, heavy themes — and the show seemed to make ever more clear the connection between the agonized, romantic darkness of being a teenager and the chaos raining down on our characters.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 July 2022
• Bradley’s vocal emphasis in the famed title role is on that character’s agonized response to the ascending chaos around her.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• Legions of consumers now in their teens, 20s and 30s grew up in households where mortgage and rent payments, credit card bills and student loans have been sources of agonized conversation for years.
  — Christine Romans, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The emotional comeback was all for not as the Rockets defeated the Rams 41-35, sending the remaining fans home in agonized disbelief.
  — Eddie Herz, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• While some series would explain away Camille's agonized path with straightforward flashbacks, Sharp Objects does not.
  — refinery29.com, 5 July 2018
• And then there is the almost Shakespearean specter of Joe Biden, the agonized father grieving the loss of one son and terrified at his inability to prevent the slow suicidal decline of the other.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• When the man’s answers don’t prove satisfactory, Sean douses him and the rope that’s holding him in gasoline, lights them on fire, and gazes on admiringly as the rope burns away, sending his victim’s fiery, agonized body plummeting to his death.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2021
• Adam, ever the screenwriter, performs a brilliant editing job on his life, cutting out decades of agonized relationships and even normal conflicts.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
• Thirty-eight cars, some filled with chemicals, left the tracks and caught fire, triggering an evacuation and agonized questions from residents about the implications for their health.
  — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
• A little agonized soul-searching goes a long way, and Looser might profitably have made more selective use of the sisters’ atmospheric correspondence.
  — Wendy Smith, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• Death is a dreamily alluring soprano; Jean-Charles, an agonized representative of those aboard the raft.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• How exhausting, this insistence on art and art making as forever agonized and ecstatic.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• The show featured Blumberg’s agonized conversations with his wife about his decision to potentially flush their family’s financial future down the drain.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• Range and Bell deserve credit for adventurousness with their central idea: exploring the agonized genesis of Bowie the superstar during a disastrous limbo year, 1971.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2020
• Abu Marzouk’s professions of surprise matched the agonized assessments of Israel’s military leaders.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Constantly cloaked in shadow or grimacing in agonized resolution (such good work from Luca Casalanguida there).
  — OregonLive.com, 29 Dec. 2017
• And, throughout, there’s the physical punishment that the performer-athletes take for their showmanship, the high price exacted by choreographic failures and reckless improvisations, and the mental torment that comes with agonized bodies.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
• There are memories embedded with memories, agonized mashups of Fife's betrayals.
  — Hamilton Cain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024