"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It had also been a difficult and painful year.
- But for the Republicans in Congress it's as if those painful years never happened.
- However, 2003 was certainly a painful year for fans, with the team's seeming inability to win close games a huge problem.
- Chicago, after many painful years, is starting to work well.
- If 2010 was a tumultuous, painful year in terms of spending on the arts then there is little doubt 2011 will top it.
- Still, the first positive quarter in the last seven made the year only a little less painful.
- Now, after two painful years, most Asian countries are emerging from recession faster than expected.
- Over the past few painful years since his divorce, he had found a life with them, sufficient to itself.
- Finally, it has been a painful year and obviously this will be the last time we have an open debate on the issue.
- I'm talking about children pushing their way through the uncertain, often painful years from 5 to 15, give or take a year on either side.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.