agonizing AmE
agonising BrE

Yet they would live long enough to know agonizing death.

My life has become nothing but an agonizing wait for death.

But even if they know, their decision to take part can be agonizing.

The decision to return to work after having a child can be agonizing for many women.

After several agonizing minutes, a voice came over the radio.

Those long, agonizing years had left dark, still places within her.

She has not seen a doctor, and he is agonizing about what to do.

She must know how agonizing it was for him, to share such private things.

He never again wanted to experience the agonizing pain he'd gone through the night before.

The place was much as I had seen it that agonizing last time.

She had been left for dead, a slow agonizing end.

We went our separate ways for three long, agonizing months.

Yesterday, at least, the decision was not an agonizing one.

The process of getting into the same time frame was agonizing.

The second step is the fun part: agonizing in public.

He seems to think it over for a few agonizing seconds.

This process, while agonizing, also brought a smile to his face.

The most agonizing questions of my life have been answered.

I was there for the rest of the night in agonizing pain.

The agonizing voice in his head suggested that he had.

Their first night together was worth every agonizing second of the wait.

But they said he agonizing over the decision and wanted to look at other candidates.

He says it was an agonizing but necessary movie for him to make.

Then there's 10 agonizing minutes as the Americans hold on for the victory.

"It was a very agonizing decision that I have been going over the last couple of years."