"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Shopping was a skilled but painful exercise, as one woman observed:
- It has been a grueling, painful and humbling exercise.
- This could be a painful exercise and made it difficult to obtain an accurate altitude for the sun.
- Packing for my early extraction was another tiresome and painful exercise in loss.
- It's a rather painful exercise, but probably worth it in the long run.
- Burke turned his head from side to side, a painful exercise, and tried to figure out exactly where he was.
- Not that drawing up the list - or rather, whittling it down - was a wholly painful exercise.
- Harry S. was a 60-year-old news reporter when the same disorder turned his once-fluid interviews into slow and painful exercises.
- Interviews could be painful exercises containing little that was self-revealing.
- And the later we restructure, the more painful the exercise.
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