It was the toughest physical ordeal of his life.

This environment presented an actual, physical ordeal, and there seemed to be no way around it.

Chakotay saw his own young ensign nod, and admired the man's strength, after the physical ordeal he'd been through.

Elspyth saw the men blanch with fear on hearing about the physical ordeal ahead.

But the physical ordeals are now accompanied by emotional ones.

Sergeant Malloy said the longer it took, the more it became a physical and psychological ordeal.

The physical ordeal was bad enough, but Jay felt so agonisingly lonely too.

Football's real physical ordeal does not happen on the field.

The wait was one of hours only, a spiritual rather than a physical ordeal.

Her former life had not prepared her for physical ordeals.