How do you use Painful in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like sore, plus the exact meaning.
Painful in a sentence
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Painful meaning
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
Synonyms of Painful
Example sentences (20)
But still, feeding was often painful and I’d bite down on my knuckles, wondering why I felt so unprepared for this.
For Anderson, whimsy and wonder being part of something immensely more painful is the way he makes sense of things.
Finding out that one of Brianna's killers was someone she knew - and considered a friend - was particularly painful.
He said it is always painful watching his wife go through a sickle cell crisis and often wish he could swap her pain.
Eventually, it causes painful stomach/intestinal disorders because our intestines are not made to digest meat.
According to the NHS, osteomyelitis is a painful bone infection that usually goes away if treated early with antibiotics.
A report on Friday showed that inflation is continuing to cool, raising hopes for a smaller increase that's less painful.
But if we do too much, we risk making economic conditions unnecessarily painful for everybody,” Macklem said.
He has used them, screwed them over and made their lives infinitely more painful and difficult — even as they defend him.
Bagnaia, known as “Pecco”, found space on lap 13 and squeezed past Martin, before his race met a premature and painful end.
Bob Mortimer was replaced on TV show Gone Fishing at the list minute as he was suffering from a painful healthful condition.
Assorted high-profile examples of painful bouts of gradual play have pressured soccer’s governing physique to hunt for picks.
A process that chemotherapy nurse Grace O'Brien (Sharon D. Clarke) sympathetically described as painful.
Diane has admitted that it’s painful when Jack visits anyway since he reminds her of the life she could’ve had on the outside.
But in some cases they can begin to grow, triggering symptoms including pelvic pain, a feeling of bloating and painful periods.
By contrast, commenting weekly on the latest of the unpleasant results of thoroughly deficient governance is a painful exercise.
Again, you’re under no obligation whatsoever to put yourself through a painful experience or try to make it work if it just won’t!
If you’re finding it painful, from NPR with some strategies for getting through the day or supporting those who may be struggling.
Even if you were already certain it was time to move on to a better opportunity, the news that you no longer have a choice is painful.
Especially painful are the insults calling him a monkey and a party trick, but this is undercut by the dramatic nature of the showdown.
Common combinations with painful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and painful 22×
- the painful 16×
- painful and 13×
- is painful 9×
- was painful 9×
- less painful 9×
- more painful 8×
- painful for 8×
- painful to 7×
- painful experience 5×
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