harrowing
IPA: hˈɛroʊɪŋ
noun
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Suffering, torment.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
- (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
adjective
- Causing pain or distress.
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Examples of "harrowing" in Sentences
- The farmer is harrowing a field.
- The stories are harrowing and cruel.
- The world needed brushing, not harrowing.
- This harrowing tale is prison writing in the raw.
- The apartment search, three months long, was harrowing.
- This harrowing musical premiered in the US in October 2006.
- The story of the harrowing was popular during the Middle Ages.
- The experience was harrowing and haunted Kandegas ever afterward.
- It was but one of the harrowing experiences that they encountered.
- The stories that follow recall in harrowing detail some very specific moments that will live in infamy.
- A future presidential candidate might have participated in harrowing door-to-door sweeps during the bloody fight for Fallujah last month.
- Halle Shilling, who was attacked in the park two weeks after Levy disappeared, is to testify today, Haines said, and will recall her harrowing attack.
- Both the semi-autobiographical Denisovich and the non-ficiton Archipelago described Gulag life in harrowing detail, and forced the West to finally acknowledge the grave human rights abuses perpetrated inside Stalin’s brutal work camps, which at their peak housed more than two million prisoners.
- Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone call at the White House on day one, a claim for which she's taking much grief on the campaign trail.
- The batteries in the gameboy thing was so convoluted -- I'm playing with my daughter's gameboy (why??) but it's out of batteries (huh?) but I have some extra in my car (who does that??) so can you come help me put them in (how harrowing is replacing batteries? even a dumb kid would wonder why an adult with functioning hands would need help for this).