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And yet she knew immediately, crushingly, who had sent it.
Their task now was simple, and crushingly difficult: to go on with life.
If it did, the interest on the national debt could become crushingly large.
This has been a crushingly depressing period, especially for people who support the war in Iraq.
The burden of another person's belief can be crushingly heavy.
To the degree that it's ever suitable to give or get crushingly bad news.
And again the shock came and he was brought crushingly to the ground.
His body lay heavily on hers, not comfortably, but crushingly.
Therefore the attack not only failed; it was repulsed crushingly.
Instead, there seemed to be a terrible pressure as the full force of Mara's mind was directed crushingly at him.
Nigeria had been saddled with a crushingly large international debt at this point.
Yet both works are incomplete - and the latter seems crushingly pathetic in its failure.
And I was shy, crushingly shy in school, with boys.
It was a crushingly hard shot and the agent went down hard on one knee.
She was once described in print as "crushingly ambitious."
This is the art of a versatile but crushingly heavy-handed stylist.
A giant shape loomed up, and frowned crushingly upon the little craft.
Most such babies have developmental problems, often severe, that are crushingly expensive to treat.
"The manners of Silver Bush are not what they were in my day," he said crushingly.
All the weariness of the last twenty-four hours descended crushingly on her shoulders.
Too often the races were crushingly predictable, with a dearth of overtaking.
We both chuckle anyway, as if it's crushingly obvious what a total dork he is.
China is crushingly dependent on the US servicing its debt.
It was going to be a crushingly hot day, that was clear by nine o'clock.
His seining fingers, stained with blood, looked crushingly strong.