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• The unassuageable anguish of the 12-year-old Harry’s loss gives Moehringer a potent, overarching literary device.2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian. From the entry unassuageable
• However, expressing anguish over crime against women and being a misandric are two different things.2019 October 30, “In a world of her own”, in Orissa Post. From the entry misandric
• It is individuals, not groups, who are sentient—who feel pleasure and pain, fulfillment and anguish.2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 1: Dare to Understand!”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress…. From the entry humanism
• Now the band has released its most po-mo puzzle box of anguish yet.2015 July 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Titus Andronicus and the Joy of Angst”, in The Atlantic. From the entry puzzle box
• The love and anguish in his voice caressed my mind and soul.2012, Mel Berry, Graceful Intentions, page 1. From the entry caress
• And at his anguish, I just smiled a grin of mastery.2011, Felix Hagan, “Vengeance On My Mind”, in Dawn Breaks, the Monster Wakes.... From the entry revile
• For others, they've leaped into a whirlpool of pain, anguish, sorrow and despair.2001, Alexis Rodriguez, Queer Journey. From the entry gayhood
• This feeling of insecurity and isolation causes inbearable spiritual anguish, fear and torture.2001, Monika Gupta, The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: A Critical Study, page vii. From the entry inbearable
• Where Willow's fearless gaze was unruffled by knowledge, Murgo's signalled the lonely anguish of the cell.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry craggy
• I do not want to be the instigator of anguish for her.1978 December 23, Nancy Walker, “Bah! Humbug!”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 16. From the entry instigator
• Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry stasis
• Then the anguish increased to unendurable massivity and nightmare dimensions, making her scream and vomit.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 19. From the entry massivity
• How great then was my anguish at being severed from my Regiment after thirty-three years!1918, Rudyard Kipling, “A Retired Gentleman”, in The Eyes of Asia, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry sever
• Requests led to anguish, a correlation anybody would recognize.2014, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, chapter 12, in Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, part 2 (2008), page 233. From the entry requestless
• Quick buffo comedy requires the clarity of the straight play, while sustained romantic anguish flourishes in atmospheric backlights and crosslight.2013, Francis Reid, Stage Lighting Handbook, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry crosslight
• As a youth, every time those Aflac commercials came on, Thomas had to retreat to his room in anguish.2013, Montgomery Trevour Halle-Bouern, Objects in the Mirror Aka Vulture Culture, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry anatidaephobia
• Kissinger’s firsthand experience in the anguishing decisions about withdrawal from Vietnam, the disclosure sparked the inevitable Iraq-Vietnam comparisons that Mr.2007 January 2, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Kissinger’s Appearance Revives Memories of Vietnam Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry firsthand
• It is confusion between having a fixed nature and having a fixed future that mismotivates the anguish over determinism.2003, Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves. From the entry mismotivate
• Thus, beyond Trakl's immediate experience of 'horror', we already precomprehend the profound sense of anguish that was ripping him apart.2001, Ashok Kara, The Ghosts of Justice, page 263. From the entry precomprehend
• She held her mouth slitted open in anguish so that in Inman's mind it resembled the sputcheon to a sword scabbard.1997, Charles Frazier, “A Vow to Bear”, in Cold Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 273. From the entry sputcheon
• He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry imposition
• "I gave her a tranq," he said with anguish.1982, Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi. From the entry tranq
• But long-distance trunking, of course, is the cream of the road haulier's job as well as the railway's; hence the anguish.1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, in Modern Railways, page 76. From the entry trunking
• He was haunted, it seems, by the symbol of a Prometheus wearied of his immortality of anguish,— by the tedium vitae.1922, Isaac Goldberg, Brazilian Literature, New York: A.A. Knopf, page 154. From the entry taedium vitae
• "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150. From the entry wolf
• Just like with Parkland, the anguish in Uvalde was compounded by fury after claims of officers failing to immediately stop the gunman.2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in…. From the entry Uvalde
• The door flew open, and there was a bloke with spectacles on his face and all round the spectacles an expression of strained anguish.1930 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Old School Chum”, in Very Good, Jeeves!, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited…. From the entry bloke
• If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry divine
• A therapeutic programme based on pain education showed significant improvements regarding pain intensity, disability, catastrophism, depression, anxiety and health, with few positive results on anguish and cognition.2018, René Mauricio Barría, Cohort Studies in Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry catastrophism
• And even though a moment earlier he had felt guilty not to have taken Dave's anguish more to heart, Claytor found himself annoyed at being caught red-handedly dogless .2011, Robb Forman Dew, Being Polite to Hitler: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry red-handedly
• If only I could manage to substitute some anguish irrelevant to all this so as to distract myself from its overwhelming resonance in a world otherwise anguishless.2008, Jenine Gordon Bockman, Jeffrey Michael Bockman, Literal Lattt: Highlights from Fifteen Years of a Unique Mind Stimulating Literary…. From the entry anguishless
• The recitation of berakhot dealing with various needs may lead the mitpallel to reflect upon his own troubles in these areas and, in consequence, to feel anguish.2003, Aharon Lichtenstein, Leaves of Faith, volume 2. From the entry mitpallel
• With a cry of anguish, she casts the bed-sheets aside, and crawls along the mattress to the foot of the bed, with the scurrying agility of an urchin.2002, Michel Faber, chapter 25, in The Crimson Petal and the White, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN, part 4 (The Bosom of the Family), page…. From the entry bed-sheet
• I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 85. From the entry keening
• But soothly, of sithes the more I am umbeset with anguish of heart, and destitute of all men’s comfort, the more favourable and godly I find her to me.1952, Walter Milton, The Goad of Love, Faber & Faber, page 201. From the entry umbeset
• Jerry went for a thing called "lemon plait." He watched the dwindling supply with anguish, not strong enough to reach the counter in the fetid excitement of hungry boys.1936, Francis Hackett, The Green Lion, page 241. From the entry lemon plait
• I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “11”, in The Moon and Sixpence. From the entry contemn
• The eccentric southpaw was in fine fettle, yielding only five singles and striking out 12 of the Dodger sluggers, much to the anguish of your slightly blimpish Uncle Wilbert Robinson.1930 August 11, “Cardinals Hand Severe Jolt To League Leaders”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. From the entry blimpish

Meaning of anguish

1. noun Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering.
2. verb To suffer pain.
3. verb To cause to suffer pain.

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How do you use anguish in a sentence?

Anguish is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It took years to overcome the anguish from my wife's death.”

What is a short sentence with anguish?

“"I gave her a tranq," he said with anguish.”

What does anguish mean?

Anguish means extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress; an emotional state caused by intense misery or suffering.