We spent an agonizing day and night, consumed with hunger, checking on the patch constantly.

Luckily, my sickness was just a really bad stomach flu that passed within a day, an agonizing day.

Dotel had to wait six agonizing days, but it was worthwhile.

Roger Clemens had waited 25 agonizing days for this day to arrive.

For three agonizing days the debate continued, with the doctors appalled by the delay.

"I spent a cnuple of agonizing days," he said.

If he doesn't, however, well it can take several agonizing days, for instance, to die of a belly wound.

Carlesimo's eyes tonight showed that it had been an agonizing day for him, filled with tears and frustration.

After several agonizing days, the doctors diagnosed his problem-osteomyelitis, infection of the bone and it was serious.

"That was the most agonizing day," she says.