Wondering how to use Agonizing in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as agonising or excruciating.
Agonizing meaning
Causing physical or mental agony.
Using Agonizing
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing physical or mental agony.
- Useful related words include: agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing.
- In the example corpus, agonizing often appears in combinations such as: the agonizing, agonizing over, an agonizing.
Context around Agonizing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Agonizing
- In this selection, "agonizing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, weeks, years, pain, awkwardness and stays stand out and add context to how "agonizing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after an agonizing few weeks and all this agonizing over what. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "agonizing" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with agonizing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was agonizing and yet not unexpected. (7 words)
In other words, no one “expected” such an agonizing outcome. (10 words)
And after a lot of agonizing, she leaves with Tatum & Victory. (11 words)
With every reason to return hate for hate, the community of Emanuel AME Church instead rode through the storm to express the love of Christ to the world, even as they suffered through their own agonizing pain. (37 words)
I’d say driving an old car is a little riskier than a brand new one, but that’s just one of thousands of totally agonizing risk calculations you’ll make as a dad! (34 words)
In “Anna Karenina,” when Levin’s brother Nikolai is dying in agonizing pain, Levin is so physically and psychologically repulsed that he avoids the situation and dreads the mental anguish it brings. (32 words)
Have you spent the last few weeks agonizing over if your firm will increase your salary? (16 words)
I’d say driving an old car is a little riskier than a brand new one, but that’s just one of thousands of totally agonizing risk calculations you’ll make as a dad! (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
But this is a pose Paul can't maintain, and in that, there is agonizing awkwardness…and fart jokes.
Dr Mesfin wrote down accounts of rape to apply for NGO funding, he said, adding that especially those committed by Eritrean forces were particularly agonizing to hear.
Have you spent the last few weeks agonizing over if your firm will increase your salary?
It was agonizing and yet not unexpected.
She wouldn’t have wanted him to reveal her depressive “breakdowns,” her agonizing stays in the Asian Pacific Psychiatric Ward, times Nguyen cannot, or will not, re member anyway.
Shocking surveillance footage captured Bob Lee's agonizing final moments after he was stabbed in the heart.
The game wastes no time agonizing over if 1K is human, though.
The situation has created an agonizing irony for many who have lost loved ones to opioids.
The sweeping bans on in-person visitation in hospitals and nursing homes, even to the bedsides of dying patients, created an agonizing situation for families.
And after a lot of agonizing, she leaves with Tatum & Victory.
Bond Traders Turn to 2025 Amid Most Agonizing Easing in Decadesbloomberg.
By withdrawing from the presidential race, after an agonizing few weeks of defiance and indecision, Biden at last became the bridge to the next generation that he once pledged to be.
In “Anna Karenina,” when Levin’s brother Nikolai is dying in agonizing pain, Levin is so physically and psychologically repulsed that he avoids the situation and dreads the mental anguish it brings.
Not knowing the reason behind their family’s separation is agonizing.
So I, probably like many others here at UChicago, spent much of my middle and high school years agonizing over how to get into a good college.
With every reason to return hate for hate, the community of Emanuel AME Church instead rode through the storm to express the love of Christ to the world, even as they suffered through their own agonizing pain.
All this agonizing over what may happen if President Donald Trump tries to steal the election is highly annoying.
But for some on the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, the wait has become agonizing.
I’d say driving an old car is a little riskier than a brand new one, but that’s just one of thousands of totally agonizing risk calculations you’ll make as a dad!
In other words, no one “expected” such an agonizing outcome.
Common combinations with agonizing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the agonizing 13×
- agonizing over 10×
- an agonizing 10×
- is agonizing 5×
- agonizing to 4×
- agonizing pain 4×
- agonizing death 4×
- her agonizing 3×
- in agonizing 3×
- agonizing wait 3×