How to Use anguished in a Sentence
anguished
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Berry’s anguished mother, Danette Hollie, thanked the bodega owners for their support.
— Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2024 -
The anguished cries of Mr. Floyd were heard in the courtroom over and over.
— Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021 -
The long and anguished drives to states with laws not rooted in the 1800s will take the pounds right off.
— Mary McNamara, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024 -
Fair enough, but please, spare us the anguished cri de poulet.
— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Oct. 2017 -
The arrival of the monsoon next month is likely to be more help to anguished Kachins.
— The Economist, 17 May 2018 -
Maybe that’s the feeling of brain cells dying a painful, anguished death.
— Jake Coyle, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2017 -
There is no question mark, as there seemed to be in King’s anguished voice 25 years ago.
— Theresa Walker, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2017 -
Deeply anguished to learn of the loss of lives due to the blast in the firecracker factory in Batala.
— Sugam Pokharel and Swati Gupta, CNN, 5 Sep. 2019 -
Jung let out an anguished cry, and the officer led her away.
— Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023 -
This anguished mercy killing haunts every beat of the movie.
— Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017 -
After a few days, Wendy passed away, with Sprague and her anguished mother at her side.
— NBC News, 8 July 2019 -
Ignore that unsettling sound in the distance—that's just the anguished wail of Friends devotees around the globe.
— Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 15 Oct. 2019 -
From one day to the next, the advice to remain sensible and not panic sounds more and more anguished.
— Emmanuel Carrère, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 -
Around the Bay Area, scores of home day-care centers and preschools are facing the same anguished decision.
— Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 8 May 2020 -
Or the moment an anguished Tiny (Crystian Wiltshire), comes to grips with his fate.
— David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 3 Mar. 2018 -
Jurors also heard a doorman place a 911 call, and Krim’s anguished screams in the background.
— Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018 -
The decision to preserve the scene has been the source of anguished debate in the four-and-a-half years since the shooting, which also injured 17.
— Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022 -
Hence the insistence, now a tiresome cliché of the genre, on the self-doubts and anguished souls of their protagonists.
— Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023 -
That June is pregnant, and an anguished mother, only enhances her heroism in the eyes of the show.
— Lisa Miller, The Cut, 2 May 2018 -
The answer, in these stories, is a kind of anguished comedy.
— Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 25 June 2018 -
Its prizing of dharma, and duty as a form of virtue, gave Oppenheimer’s anguished mind a form of calm.
— WIRED, 24 July 2023 -
And with that the fire extinguished itself, the light left, and the anguished decreation of all things subsided.
— Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 -
Where his folk recordings felt anguished and stormy, here the vocals are sonorous and slow, merging with mellow waves and pulses.
— Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020 -
George Smiley, a tormented Englishman with an anguished heart and a will of iron, is the moral center of this amoral world.
— Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017 -
The anguished melody of the central slow movement welled up from the ground with such power that applause rained down from the balconies afterward.
— BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019 -
After Mike's death, Liz felt compelled to send Forrest Fenn an anguished email.
— CBS News, 22 May 2021 -
But the full extent of that punishing trip is revealed only late in the play, in an anguished monologue from Ivey that tears your heart out.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2019 -
The character’s suffering and guilt were apparent in the anguished tone of Mr. Mattei’s singing and the wracked movements of body.
— Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018 -
Jurors would still hear the gory details of the crime, along with anguished testimony from relatives of the dead.
— David Ovalle and Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Feb. 2018 -
This also meant his mother had to field calls from anguished players, unable to save Dr. Jones and needing tips.
— Andrada Fiscutean, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
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