How to use painful in a sentence

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• After several painful episodes, we've decided to adopt code review for all major changes.From the entry code review
• Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.From the entry backside
• The skater slipped off his board and did a painful faceplant.From the entry faceplant
• The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.From the entry ignominious
• The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.From the entry efflux
• He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but painful memories made him feel unready to do so.From the entry reconciliation
• The effluxion of matter from a boil can be painful.From the entry effluxion
• Travelling third-class isn't just slow, it's painful.From the entry third-class
• It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you.From the entry deceive
• The gunshot wound was excruciatingly painful.From the entry excruciatingly
• A terribly painful sound never before heard in any masjid escaped Aashraf.2025, Banu Mushtaq, “Black Cobras”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 58. From the entry masjid
• And if you're sad about someone, something that was fun once is now really painful.2024 January 11, 9:49 from the start, in Does Kristen Stewart Know Her Lines From Her Most Famous Movies?, spoken by Kristen Stewart. From the entry lol
• This is painful but necessary in view of the shortage of gas.”2023 January 10, Kate Connolly, “Climate activists ‘prepared to risk lives’ to stop German coalmine”, in The Guardian. From the entry lignite
• Even a moment’s hesitation could be punished by a swift but painful death beneath the bicorns’ hooves.2022, Hisaya Amagishi, translated by Nikolas Stirling, Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools, volume 3, J-Novel Club…. From the entry bicorn
• With funding best described as tight, we look to be entering a painful period for rail.2022 December 14, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Tightening the purse strings”, in RAIL, number 972, page 3. From the entry sting in the tail
• German for “mid pain,” mittelschmerz is the medical term for painful ovulation.2019, Amanda Laird, Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry mittelschmerz
• They emit a loud, painful sound over a long distance and make people run away.2017 August 10, Nicole Chavez, “Using sound to attack: The diverse world of acoustic devices”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20…. From the entry LRAD
• And now it's the turn of the horribly painful sounding 'ab crack' which has got people talking.2016 July 20, Sian Ranscombe, The Telegraph. From the entry ab crack
• “Either way, it doesn't make the knowledge any less painful, or loathe-worthy.”2016, K.A. Poe, Anathema. From the entry loathe-worthy
• Indeed, some may wish to make withdrawal as painful as possible pour encourager les autres.2016 March 1, Nicholas Wright, “Can Britain's bureaucracy handle a Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry pour encourager les autres
• Why the feck does that happen to me, not down with this painful swass."2016 July 6, Colonel Edmund J. Burke, “SOLUTION FOR A SWEATY ANUS”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet). From the entry swass
• Now, struggling with the painful ache in his throat, he looked over at Sassy.2015, Beverly Lewis, The Love Letters, Baker Books, →ISBN. From the entry doppich
• It is painful for the owners of malinvestments but fast and efficient.2014, Philipp Bagus, In Defense of Deflation, page 77. From the entry malinvestment
• Glossodynia refers to a painful tongue and glossopyrosis refers to burning sensation of tongue.2014, Pramod John, Textbook of Oral Medicine, page 344. From the entry glossopyrosis
• I've been there enough times to know exactly just how painful this state of “unmotivation” can be.2013, Robert Dave Johnston, How to Lose 30 Pounds (or More) in 30 Days with Juice Fasting. From the entry unmotivation
• Horlicks suffered from such a painful back condition that he could hardly walk?” she informed Hodgekiss.2012 April 11, Tricia Bennett, Polly Brown: A Modern-Day Oliver With a Twist, Charisma Media, →ISBN. From the entry horlicks
• She pulled at the pants, inflicting some painful cow bites on Carl's legs.2012, J. W. Stockton, Fardnock's Revenge, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry cow bite
• That became the beginning of a long and painful relationship between Billy and me.2011, Patricia Reed, chapter 3, in The House in the Curve: The Portrait, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 28–29. From the entry leave someone out in the cold
• This label was just too painful and for most students would not be accepted.2009, Shirley R. Steinberg, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 104. From the entry racist
• But soon, fantasy land was bombed by reality and I found myself living in a painful world.2009, Romy Miller, “Everything You Know Might Quite Possibly Be Wrong”, in How to Be Wanted: Use the Law of Attraction to Date the Man You…. From the entry fantasy land
• The blows were so painful on his sore leg, he was screaming with pain.2008, Sheila Stewart, “A Story from Ireland”, in Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotland’s Travelling People, Edinburgh: Birlinn…. From the entry mammie's boy
• Imagination, like memory, can be selective, editing out those details which are painful or discomfiting.2007, Sam Portaro, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader, 1968”, in Brightest and Best: A Companion to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts…. From the entry discomfiting
• Max began a painful procedure that he calls exfoliating and I call Brillo-padding my face.2007, Jane Mendle, Better Off Famous? A Novel. From the entry brillo-pad
• Most nurses found the helplessness of "the shell shocks" painful and "pitiful."2004, Susan Zeiger, In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917—1919, page 131. From the entry shell shock
• These alcoholic stories break open the experience of the absurd in vivid, painful, and humorous ways.2004, James B. Nelson, Thirst: God and the alcoholic experience, page 127. From the entry drunkalogue
• Eating the crayfish moqueca was almost as painful at the outset as it was delicious.2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 180. From the entry moqueca
• But, for some, penpersonship may remain painful for a long period.2003, David H. Albert, Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery: A Journey of Original Seeking, Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press…. From the entry penpersonship

Meaning of painful

1. adjective Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
2. adjective Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
3. adjective Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

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Questions about painful in a sentence

How do you use painful in a sentence?

Painful is used as an adjective. For example: “His violin playing is painful.”

What is a short sentence with painful?

“His violin playing is painful.”

What does painful mean?

Painful means causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.