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Example sentences for "agonized"

Lexicographically close words:
agonies; agonised; agonising; agonistic; agonize; agonizing; agonizingly; agony; agora; agorot
  1. He recognized the agonized tone and sprang forward into the clearing.

  2. Diane Delacouer, staring with agonized eyes into the night was calling to him: "Listen!

  3. It was only a moment before that he had opened his eyes to see Harkness' strained face and the agonized look of Diane as the two leaned above him.

  4. He was not merely curious now to find out whether she would let him hold her hand (all in the purest friendship, naturally), but agonized with need of it.

  5. He saw Paul in a jailbird's uniform, but while he agonized he didn't believe the tale.

  6. Babbitt was frightened, but he had an agonized instinct that if he yielded in this he would yield in everything.

  7. Susan's eyes, agonized and pleading, were on his face.

  8. No, he had nothing new to say about Keith," began the man, answering the agonized question in her eyes before her lips could frame the words.

  9. He had agonized under the brand of punishment as it burnt into his flesh, and he had seen it changed into the badge of approval.

  10. This was the more proper because, in a few years after the beginning of the community, European revolutionists were to be scourged with the Syllabus, whose every word agonized the souls of unworthy advocates of liberty.

  11. She agonized after the belief that they were two of Patsy's sweethearts, come for the commendable purpose of serenading her.

  12. It was upon that, quite as much as upon her later carelessness in trusting Lila, that her agonized conscience fixed.

  13. Back and forth he paced in his little room; a creature caged, not by mere walls, but by an irreparable mistake; a creature agonized and helpless.

  14. Friend Whittier was present, and heard the agonized entreaties of his wife and children.

  15. Caporal," pleaded the curiosity-trader, turning his head in agonized fear to see if the vivandiere's pistol was behind him.

  16. Yet she loved him; nobody who saw her in those first silent, agonized months could doubt that she loved him.

  17. He denied it, he struggled against it; yet all the while he was drawn by an agonized curiosity to consider it.

  18. Her arms were now tight about the old woman's neck, her agonized face turning wildly toward the door, as if she thought that Felix were already there.

  19. Alex remembered still the agonized days and nights of despairing remorse which had followed, and her own sense of being all but a murderess.

  20. It was Louis who woke with a sense of fright, felt that his bedfellow was gone, and heard his voice at the other side of the room, an agonized voice that chilled him.

  21. The priest is here, Tim," he said gently, and Endicott saw the receding life rush back with joy into the agonized features.

  22. Una, hurrying off to the office every morning, agonized with the effort to be on time, always had to stop and prepare a written list of the things her mother was to do.

  23. Oh, you old darling, you were twice as agonized as me!

  24. The agonized feelings of his heroic mind are not to be described; but, nothing could for a moment divert him from the painful discharge of it's duty.

  25. He tenderly enquired into the state of their wounds, and poured the balm of sympathetic solace into their agonized minds.

  26. He would have wondered yet more could he have seen the white, agonized face she turned upon Mr. Ford when they had gone away.

  27. Tears came naturally as the hours went by--tears and the agonized relief of prayer to one for whom prayer was a daily need of the soul.

  28. His lean, sharply-cut face revealed a miserable, perhaps an agonized suspense.

  29. Don't look at me with such an agonized expression of the ears, Peter!

  30. She had no love for him, but her heart was not callous to suffering, and his distorted and agonized face had terrified and shocked her.

  31. With understanding merging into pity he crept nearer and put his slender, boyish arm around the big, shaking, agonized figure, and the old man turned his head and looked long and sorrowfully into the white child's face.

  32. Priscilla and Anne exchanged agonized glances but could do nothing.

  33. Anne read hers that bitter night, as she kept her agonized vigil through the hours of storm and darkness.

  34. She felt dazed and giddy, sick with fear, and yet glowing with admiration in the midst of her agonized anxiety.

  35. The fact that no one suspected his crime had given him the period of agonized suspense, with all those dream-torments, the fear of death which was worse than death itself.

  36. Then he knelt upon his rock, and prayed--offered up the last agonized prayer of a despairing human soul.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agonized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.