"agony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The first act of this new coalition was to set a term to the country's protracted economic agony, a promise of return to prosperity and hope.
- Part of the protracted agony involved in creating the show (reams of material for which never got used) arose from an aversion to coming across as heavy-handed.
- "It's ... just flatulence," Lucinda apologized in consternation as though in denial she was reacting against her protracted agony.
- Death swiftly at your hand or some protracted agony of drowning, which would the poor man have preferred?
- Do we want to establish a precedent for the future harassment of presidents and to tie up our government with a protracted national agony of search and accusation?
- Couples would no longer be required to seek a legal separation of up to one year before filing for divorce, "a protracted agony," he said in a telephone interview.
- Some were for immediate murder, others like the thought of the more protracted agony of the guillotine, but all wanted this man's death.
- He had an end to his protracted agony.
- The only question then is in what manner you will cease to live--whether in protracted agony or, instead, easily, when with one quick gulp of water..." "Enough!
- It has been said that the disaster, "for sheer protracted agony, has no parallel in climbing annals."
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