How to Use agony in a Sentence

agony

noun

• It was agony to watch him suffer like that.
• The medicine relieves the agony of muscle cramps very quickly.
• She was in terrible agony after breaking her leg.
• Allie—her body a flaming pyre of agony—rolled off the bed and fell to the floor.
  — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
• That’s 5 hours shaved off and an incredible amount of agony for my intestines.
  — Fox News, 18 June 2021
• As the teen writhes in agony on the ground, Smyrnios inches closer to him and instructs him to put his hands behind his back.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Hughes described how he was forced to scream out in agony as he was pressed between the rioters and a metal doorframe.
  — Jeremy Herb, CNN, 27 July 2021
• For Shlomi Berger whose 20-year-old daughter Agam was taken hostage, it's been a year of agony.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• The arts are sometimes an excellent way to portray the agonies and ecstasies of disease and suffering.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• While enjoying his waffles, Sanderlin remembered the agony of his roster from last season.
  — oregonlive, 18 June 2021
• The team got input from fans and alumni in addition to its own internal decision-makers, but there wasn’t much agony over the decision.
  — Ethan Sears, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• Her grieving family rushed from Canada after the collapse and had spent weeks in agony waiting in Miami.
  — CBS News, 22 July 2021
• After 55 years of agony and heartbreak, everything was coming together at these Euros.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 7 July 2021
• Two of the four women were posed nude after their deaths, one was raped with a claw hammer and all were repeatedly strangled and resuscitated to prolong their agony, prosecutors said.
  — Donald Thompson, ajc, 24 July 2021
• Rescue crews are still searching through the debris -- and families are still waiting in agony -- after a Miami-area condo building partially collapsed last week.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 28 June 2021
• The history of sickle cell is a tale of bravery and agony, effort and neglect, that mirrors the history of the Black experience in America.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• Or, the Fed could take the low road and skirt the agony of a hard times.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021
• Here, the names of the dead can be spoken and the agony of loss can be shown.
  — Matt Sedensky, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• That the defeat came at the hands of Japan adds to the agony for Chinese fans.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• The agony is worth it, because that’s how ideas are born.
  — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• The next day, the agony of not knowing ended, but with the news came more heartache.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
• Jo, get out of there now and save yourself years of agony.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2024
• The nanny didn’t leave for a couple of months, which was agony for me.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2022
• There was no pressure, no stress, no agony—just the need for speed.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 21 Dec. 2021
• May God bring them comfort in this hour of their agony.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 30 Apr. 2022
• And that's the parents, the parents who raised the child, the parents who have seen that child go through agony.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The United States team and its fans erupted in joy; Pulisic was in agony.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• The lessons have come wrapped in triumph, agony and with so much in between.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
• Friends and relatives of those trapped in Pokrovsky were in agony.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022
• In the back, a man in German uniform, groaning in agony.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024