"pain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Leto raised his aquiline nose, his pride and pain outweighing any desire for concession with her.
- The pain of a thorn prick far outweighed the actual wound, she thought as she watched the blood well up on her thumb.
- One pain couldn't outweigh another; no pain could balance out another.
- When a man looks about him, surely he sees that in general the pain outweighs the pleasure?
- If the pain outweighs the gains, he will be deterred and this produces maximal social utility.
- The hazards and pains, especially at the beginning, far outweigh the rewards.
- The pain and detriment it brought my kin far outweigh whatever negligible benefit they may have gained.
- I quit taking it after 2 years because the pain and other side effects outweighed any benefit.
- Many businesses have previously chosen to stay with Lotus 1-2-3 even when faster, cheaper and more elegant alternatives entered the market, just because the pain of switching outweighed the benefits.
- As usual, people are either paralyzed with shyness or goaded by aggression, and love's pains outweigh its pleasures.
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