Agonised is an English word with synonyms like agonized or painful. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Agonised meaning
Experiencing agony
Using Agonised
- The main meaning on this page is: Experiencing agony
- Useful related words include: agonized, painful.
- In the example corpus, agonised often appears in combinations such as: agonised over, have agonised, agonised for.
Context around Agonised
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Agonised
- In this selection, "agonised" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, actually, jesus, hussein, talks and protagonist stand out and add context to how "agonised" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after agonised talks on and cromwell agonised for six. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "agonised" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with agonised
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cromwell agonised for six weeks over the offer. (8 words)
I agonised for weeks about whether I should name Korski. (10 words)
He agonised over the decision long after he made it. (10 words)
Cooke, V., (Ed.) Beckett on File (London: Methuen, 1985), p. 14 Here we see the agonised protagonist yearning for self-knowledge, or at least complete freedom of thought at any cost, and the dichotomy and interaction of mind and body. (40 words)
After agonised talks on the telephone, he steeled himself to the decision, writing to her: 'There is no compromise, there is only choice; and the pain of trying to pretend otherwise is terrible for both of us. (37 words)
The 54-year-old actor plays a younger version of the British monarch in the hit Netflix show, but Dominic has revealed that he actually agonised about accepting the role. (30 words)
Example sentences (13)
After agonised talks on the telephone, he steeled himself to the decision, writing to her: 'There is no compromise, there is only choice; and the pain of trying to pretend otherwise is terrible for both of us.
I agonised for weeks about whether I should name Korski.
The 54-year-old actor plays a younger version of the British monarch in the hit Netflix show, but Dominic has revealed that he actually agonised about accepting the role.
Former police officer Mr Hinder said: "I have agonised over this decision.
Jesus agonised on the cross for six hours and then gave up his spirit.
Hussein agonised over not providing a better quality of life for his family despite working 16-hour days.
He agonised over the decision long after he made it.
A moderate Social Democrat, Väinö Voionmaa agonised in 1919: "Those who still trust in the future of this nation must have an exceptionally strong faith.
As Jews were taken away from the ghetto that sat right alongside St Peter's, he may have agonised, but he did not intervene.
Cooke, V., (Ed.) Beckett on File (London: Methuen, 1985), p. 14 Here we see the agonised protagonist yearning for self-knowledge, or at least complete freedom of thought at any cost, and the dichotomy and interaction of mind and body.
Cromwell agonised for six weeks over the offer.
Eventually, after a very long delay, they asked Epstein to dismiss Best from the band.sfn Epstein agonised over the decision.
His attitude to armaments There is no evidence that Armstrong agonised over his decision to go into armament production.
Common combinations with agonised
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: