How to Use excruciating in a Sentence

excruciating

adjective
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  • I have an excruciating headache.
  • They described their vacation in excruciating detail.
  • In one long, excruciating take, Rhaenyra gets up to take the baby to the queen.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • By the time my alarm went off, the sheer act of getting out of bed was all-around excruciating.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2022
  • This was twice as excruciating: bottom of the 18th inning and still no runs for the home team.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • My body aches, my pain is excruciating, and my bones are in agony.
    — Connie Rowland, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The hurdles people must clear to get out of town when the system grinds to a halt can be excruciating.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 July 2023
  • For more than a year, life for many sriracha lovers has been an excruciating lesson in bland.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Even a slight chill still meant hours of excruciating pain.
    — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • One bite from a bullet ant will leave you with 24 hours of excruciating pain.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • House of the Dragon's first season ended with a bang, and the wait to see the fallout has already been excruciating.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Texas A&M won for the 10th time in the last 11 meetings in the series, many of them in excruciating fashion for Arkansas fans.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Jurors in the case have heard, in excruciating detail, about how the victims died.
    — Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2022
  • That means narrowing them down to the top 24 has been an excruciating task.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Any slight breath of air across them is now excruciating.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This caused Embiid to grab his knee, and he was seen in excruciating pain.
    — Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This triggers excruciating episodes known as pain crises, which can happen anywhere in the body and last for hours or even weeks.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • None of its ten chapters, each of which gives a pseudonymous account of a patient, is easy to read, and some are excruciating.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This excruciating loss is sudden and will be felt by many.
    — Emily Robertson, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • They have been told in excruciating detail about how the victims died.
    — al, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The whole event is, of course, excruciating for Jimmy and Kim, two of the three people most responsible for the death of the man being honored here.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
  • Sarah's parents, Tom and Laura Yarborough, had the excruciating task of having to tell their two sons the tragic news.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Since the date of the biopsy (in early December 2022), my friend has been in constant excruciating pain in the area where the first biopsy was performed.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
  • For the families of the remaining hostages who have lived through two months of agony, every day that goes by is excruciating.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Watching the film at the première months later was excruciating because most of my best takes had been thrown out, and the dubbing sounded fake.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, The New Yorker, 6 July 2023
  • The back half of the book describes this period in excruciating detail, from the hopelessness Spears felt to the anger and sadness that crushed her daily.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023
  • An excruciating pain radiated down her head and neck and pulsed through her body in waves.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Even for people who get assistance to move, the choice can be excruciating.
    — Michael Phillis, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • One of which was completely out of body and excruciating.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The tension is excruciating, even as the dialogue is pure ham.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2023

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