"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- What should be the military's most careful duty, these families say, has for them been a painful ordeal.
- In any event, both the Leffelmans and the lenders appear to have been going through a painful ordeal.
- The culture had provided some of the rituals and agents needed to support me through these painful ordeals.
- The mere contact had nearly burned her; if she'd really gripped the box, it would have been a painful ordeal.
- In real life, a broken marriage is still a painful and damaging ordeal.
- The valley had the look of a dying creature whose death had been a long and painful ordeal.
- For someone of his extreme sensitivity, it was a painful ordeal.
- It is also a country which has had to suffer long and painful ordeals since independence, gained in 1953.
- Steeling himself for the painful ordeal, Phil started to rise.
- At the very end of the program, all the recruits were shut into a room and tear-gassed - a terribly painful ordeal.
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