How to Use excruciating in a Sentence

excruciating

adjective

• I have an excruciating headache.
• They described their vacation in excruciating detail.
• From the back of my neck to my lower back was just excruciating pain.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• Because of that, the pain in her knees can be excruciating.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• Padnos’ account of his capture may be the most excruciating reading in a book with a fair amount of torture.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 25 Feb. 2021
• These facts are excruciating, hard to read and perhaps for some hard to acknowledge that they are allowed to happen in our midst.
  — Angelina Jolie, Time, 18 Feb. 2021
• The chemical seeped into her eyes and inside her ear canal, causing excruciating pain that sent her to the emergency room.
  — NBC News, 20 Mar. 2021
• The trials of Jones and Trone in the 1990s were just excruciating.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• Then, backstage, Mills delivered one of the most excruciating news conferences ever captured on film.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• Emanuel describes the effort to pull his company through the pandemic as excruciating: the cost-cutting, the layoffs, the talk of bankruptcy.
  — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• The exhaustion is excruciating, and both physical and mental.
  — Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• A year without the seasonal thrills of the Cyclone was excruciating for Knapp, who regularly arrives at dawn each opening day to be first in line.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 9 Apr. 2021
• For those who must depend on U.I. benefits, navigating the system can be excruciating.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
• In one long, excruciating take, Rhaenyra gets up to take the baby to the queen.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• The pain is excruciating when the knee pops out of place.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
• By the time my alarm went off, the sheer act of getting out of bed was all-around excruciating.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2022
• The loss of a child is one of the most excruciating pains a parent can endure.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
• This was twice as excruciating: bottom of the 18th inning and still no runs for the home team.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• For one thing, no one liked the movie much (the reviews were excruciating).
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 June 2024
• My body aches, my pain is excruciating, and my bones are in agony.
  — Connie Rowland, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
• To be sure, this has been the most excruciating run-up to the Olympics of the career of Shiffrin, who’s 26 years old and competing in her third Games.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• The hurdles people must clear to get out of town when the system grinds to a halt can be excruciating.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 July 2023
• The Tigers are winless in their first six games and their latest loss may have been the most excruciating.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2021
• McKinley had tears in his eyes on the cart and was both distraught and in excruciating pain.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• For more than a year, life for many sriracha lovers has been an excruciating lesson in bland.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Even a slight chill still meant hours of excruciating pain.
  — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• One bite from a bullet ant will leave you with 24 hours of excruciating pain.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• The heat was excruciating, and for Updike, so was the outcome.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
• For younger fans like Gordon Sheach, 32, the wait has been just as excruciating.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• However, Redmond got up and—amid excruciating pain—limped back to the track, intending to finish the race.
  — Tal Frankfurt, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024