How to Use excruciating in a Sentence

excruciating

adjective

• I have an excruciating headache.
• They described their vacation in excruciating detail.
• 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
• The pain grew to be so excruciating that Jack had to take hot baths to cope.
  — John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 5 June 2018
• The trials of Jones and Trone in the 1990s were just excruciating.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The pain was excruciating, ripping through me like a knife from my pelvic wall all the way up to my rib cage.
  — Leah Campbell, Glamour, 23 Apr. 2019
• 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
• From the back of my neck to my lower back was just excruciating pain.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• 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
• In his pain index, 'one' measures as the mildest sting and 'four' as the most excruciating.
  — Trisha Gopal and Isabella Bartolucci, CNN, 8 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Because of that, the pain in her knees can be excruciating.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• In my opinion, trying to figure out what to cook can be the most excruciating part of the meal prep process.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Where the PvP fails is in the lack of variety in game modes and the excruciating wait times between rounds and matches.
  — Louie Villalobos, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
• Even a slight chill still meant hours of excruciating pain.
  — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• Waiting to hear your name called at the NBA Draft can be excruciating.
  — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 22 June 2018
• One bite from a bullet ant will leave you with 24 hours of excruciating pain.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• An excruciating pulsing headache on one or both sides of the head is only one part of the package.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 Oct. 2018
• The heat was excruciating, and for Updike, so was the outcome.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
• Bieber threw 12 shutout innings in his first two starts and struck out 20, but excruciating pain in both starts left him with no choice.
  — Jason Lloyd, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
• But the end games were excruciating losses, usually in the national semifinals, once in the final, and once — just once — in the Sweet 16.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025
• But like, walking stairs was excruciating, pre-surgery.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025