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Example sentences for "anguished"

Lexicographically close words:
angry; angrye; anguille; anguis; anguish; angular; angularities; angularity; angularly; angulated
  1. His course I sad deplore, In anguished breast.

  2. King Seuen long gazed; then from him broke, In anguished tones the words he spoke.

  3. Their sons, that they have brought up so tenderly and whom they have anguished over, bring all their mistakes to the beloved to be wept over.

  4. Cheerfully he hoisted his massive chest upon the pail, and then, pounding jerkily with his flippers as hard as he could, he lifted his muzzle heavenward and delivered himself of a series of prolonged and anguished groans.

  5. His only poor consolation was that the hideous, crunching thing had been removed from his bleeding paw, which, however, anguished cruelly for the soothing of his tongue.

  6. O, many a household, whose inmates pressing their anguished brows under living sorrows, would bless God for the sweet memories of earthly love that you cling to in your pain.

  7. Two large tears gathered in her anguished eyes and then slowly ran down her distorted face.

  8. He met her anguished eyes with insolence.

  9. With anguished eyes, she visualized, relived his agony.

  10. She turned an anguished face towards him, laying her hands upon his shoulders.

  11. For an anguished moment, they rocked to and fro in silent grief.

  12. She drew a long breath, the breath of one waking from an anguished dream.

  13. She could no longer project an anguished consciousness to those scenes wherein he walked and talked with Kitty.

  14. It was a blinding tempest of long-frustrate desire that heaved at me, surging appallingly behind me like an anguished mob.

  15. Floating along with a face of anguished torture I saw Mabel, a mere effigy captured by others' thinking, pass down into those depths of fire and blood that only just had closed beneath my feet.

  16. And the anguished angel who weeps to look upon him.

  17. He fell upon his knees, and his soul seemed to melt in a flood of anguished pity.

  18. And, by the mercy of God, Richard opened his eyes and stared with blue blankness straight into Alicia's quivering, anguished face.

  19. I was oppressed with a nameless terror, an anguished sense that something had happened, something irremediable.

  20. The fact that he was rushing to meet in combat three men, armed and desperate, worried him less than his anguished concern in behalf of the girl who was unprepared for his advent by hint or warning.

  21. The bank examiner tapped his finger on the writing, calling for the attention of the anguished president.

  22. Yet Oswald by her side walked silently, And watched, as one struck mute with anguished fear, Her eager eyes, and heard her chattering words.

  23. Some wept aloud and some in silence; some pressed their little offspring to their anguished bosoms; and others cast a lingering eye on the distant tower, where stood the objects of their love.

  24. Oh, leave me not alone in grief-- Send this anguished heart relief!

  25. The crowd held back, fretting against the edict of decorum, as the voices rose in the miserable treble of song, to which two hounds added their anguished howls.

  26. There was for him a touch of Golgotha in those long moments of reflection and something of that anguished concentration which one sees in Rodin's figure of "The Thinker"--that bronze man bent in the melancholy travail of the birth of thought.

  27. From her father's room came a deeply anguished groan and the muttering of a prayer.

  28. How crass and blind had been his anguished spirit when first it quivered under the shock of her disappearance!

  29. Perforce, he stilled his frenzy, and stood in anguished silence.

  30. After a moment of anguished bewilderment, she said: "You mean that Erris Boyne was my father?

  31. The sight of the girl anguished his soul.

  32. That name tugged at her heart; this suddenly became one of those anguished moments when she yearned over him as over a beloved lost child, to be wept for, succored only through her efforts.

  33. Sad hearted we sit by Lake Allumette, Who saw him go down in the wave; And question ourselves in anguished regret, Did we make every effort to save?

  34. Then he lives over and over, That moment of anguished dread, When the cry arose--awestruck hands Had found and borne oft his dead.

  35. We only read of fields heaped high with slain, Of vineyards flooded red, but not with wine, Of writhing heaps of groaning anguished pain, Of wounded carted off in endless line.

  36. The anguished eyes besought him, and, not knowing what else to do, he gripped two of the cross-pieces of his raft and launched his legs out towards the drowning man.

  37. This suddenly became one of those anguished moments when she yearned over him as over a beloved lost child, to be wept over, succored only through her efforts.

  38. Faint and trembling, he gazed down upon her as they strolled along, compelling her soft eyes to meet his anguished ones.

  39. It was out of the abundance of his anguished heart that he added: "The situation is agreeable to me for many reasons--but alas!

  40. But there was an anguished note in his voice new to the Lad, and one that made the pain in his heart grow almost unbearable.

  41. It was not twenty-four hours since he had seen his father standing in the doorway waving him farewell, the sunlight on his face and that gallant, anguished attempt at a smile!

  42. Elfreda Briggs dashed into the room, threw herself face downward on her disordered bed and gave way to a long, anguished wail.

  43. Just then an anguished voice called out, "Miriam, please come back.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anguished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anguished; anxious; bored; careworn; cheerless; cut; depressed; disgusted; doleful; dolorous; grieved; grievous; grim; hurt; injured; joyless; lamentable; lugubrious; mournful; nauseated; nauseous; pained; plaintive; plangent; revolted; rueful; sad; sorrowful; tearful; uneasy; unfulfilled; ungoverned; unhappy; unquiet; unsatisfied; woeful; wounded