"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even with these painful steps, the traverse to capitalism is only half complete.
- Bent over, he made his way up a short staircase, three painful steps to a wall of wood.
- Moving a painful step closer, she realized it looked like an old mine shaft.
- With the tennis year about to end, it was a doubly painful step in the wrong direction.
- Meanwhile with slow and painful steps he sought for a church.
- I took one painful step and then another into the home of the people whose child I'd helped kidnap.
- One reason may be that those companies took the painful steps to become competitive in the early 1980's, when times were tough.
- I need the center because we have to take painful steps.
- But it has dragged its feet on the more painful steps.
- He began to think things through, slowly; one small, painful step at a time.
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