agony

IPA: ˈægʌni

Examples of "agony" in Sentences

I tried to push through it and was left in agony for a week.
I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony — Oh! take him away!
He had been walking by, but stopped at my desk after seeing the expression of agony on my face.
Exercise leaves me in agony for days and so it pretty much rules it out, even walking and swimming leave me in pain.
It rises naturally to a suffering man's lips as expressive of agony, though not exactly framed for _his_ individual _agony_.
But pain, passing a little blood preceeding a few large kidney stones and being in agony is not a bad punishment for his evilness …. for now.
Watching collision-injured wildlife scream and writhe in agony is very disturbing to everyone, particularly the nonshooting, nonhunting public.
I wept bitterly; and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, "Oh! stars and clouds, and winds, ye are all about to mock me: if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness."
Persons in sorrow are too apt to be cross and peevish with those about them, and to lay it grievously to heart, if they but seem to neglect them; but Christ in his agony is as meek as ever, and carries it as patiently toward his followers as toward his Father, and is not apt to take things ill.