ANGUISHED in a Sentence

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132 example sentences for ANGUISHED, such as:

1. She cast an anguished look at Guy.
2. Her mind was too torn with her own anguish.
3. The loss of her husband anguished her deeply.
4. He looked up in sudden anguished apprehension.
5. The loss of a pet can cause some people real anguish.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANGUISHED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
anguished
 a.  experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent; feeling, expressing, or caused by anguish
Classic Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
1  He looked up in sudden anguished apprehension.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  For some time there had been an agitation in Washington to confiscate all "Rebel property" to pay the United States' war debt and this agitation had kept Scarlett in a state of anguished apprehension.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  India shot one more quick anguished look at Ashley, and, wrapping her cape about her, ran lightly down the hall to the back door and let herself out quietly into the night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished, yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  They streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  Her mind was too torn with her own anguish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  But, Ashley," her voice was beginning to break with anguish and disappointment, "But I'd counted on you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  She burrowed her head back into Melanie's thin shoulder and some of the real anguish went from her as a flicker of hope woke in her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
11  At the word, Lily's face melted from locked anguish to the open misery of a child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  The name, as Gerty saw with a clutch at the heart, had loosened the springs of self-pity in her friend's dry breast, and tear by tear Lily poured out the measure of her anguish.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
15  This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
Example Sentence:
1  She cast an anguished look at Guy.
2  The loss of her husband anguished her deeply.
3  We have to transfer these anguished victims of the earthquake at first.
4  Visiting the site of the explosion, the governor wept to see the anguish of the victims and their families.
5  It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it.
6  The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
7  The loss of a pet can cause some people real anguish.