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Example sentences for "pains"

Lexicographically close words:
painfulness; paining; painless; painlessly; painlessness; painstaking; painstakingly; paint; paintbrush; painted
  1. It makes the real pains and aches ever so much more bearable and eliminates those which to a great extent are imaginary.

  2. Tremors are quite common, and pains and aches in connection with the disabilities of the limbs are extremely frequent.

  3. There are some people who take no pains to organize existence in such a way that they have definite diversion at certain times.

  4. Many cures besides these occur at shrines, and I have taken a good deal of pains to assure myself that most of the affections that are healed at them are quite different from these psychoneuroses.

  5. Our self-conscious generation, as religious impressions have been diminished in recent years, is making its pains ever so much more difficult to bear than they were before.

  6. And lives his life-days happier far; For nought it signifies what gains The wretched usurer makes, the pains Of poverty afflict him yet Who having, struggleth still to get.

  7. No pains should be spared to obtain sound and soft cork for connecting the combustion- and drying-tubes used in organic analysis.

  8. It is a counter-irritant, and applied externally it has been found to give relief in rheumatic pains and neuralgia.

  9. Pains in the loins are a common accompaniment of gravel, and there is also sometimes pain in passing water.

  10. Caffeine has been recommended in those pains that affect only one side of the head (hemicrania); in doses of 1 to 3 gr.

  11. It is marked by obstinate costiveness, acrid bilious vomitings, violent pains about the region of the navel, convulsive spasms in the intestines, and a tendency to paralysis in the extremities.

  12. On the third or fourth day an eruption shows itself, accompanied with pains in the limbs, glandular swellings, and languor.

  13. Marked by severe griping pains and constipation of the bowels.

  14. The aches and pains we have endured in performing labor for those we love is the best evidence of genuine sacrifice.

  15. This is all right, for Nature has given us sweet refreshing slumber to drive away the aches and pains so that on the morrow we are ready for the fray.

  16. In proportion as we have endured these backaches and pains and are patient in our occupation, the aches will lessen until finally we have laid up a store of energy so that the aches will not bother us.

  17. They represent sacrifice, these aches and pains do, and sacrifice brings happiness.

  18. Our Aches and Pains When we work hard with our body all day our backs ache and our muscles ache.

  19. Luckily Mrs. Westmore's course had served as a corrective for his lack of experience; she had even, as it appeared, been at some pains to hasten the process of disillusionment.

  20. I've often thought of that," answered the chief, "for he always takes great pains to make friends of the creatures of the underworld.

  21. We find the advantages some men's generous pains have this way brought to the stock of natural knowledge.

  22. For in this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the truth as the eye doth light, only by being directed towards it.

  23. For, though in demonstration the mind does at last perceive the agreement or disagreement of the ideas it considers; yet it is not without pains and attention: there must be more than one transient view to find it.

  24. Truths are often delivered to us, like wheat in full ears, to the end we should rub them out before we eat them, and take pains about them, before we have the comfort of them.

  25. Was it not therefore well worth the seeing-yea, if John had taken the pains to go up thither upon his hands and knees?

  26. And thus, quite forgetting the sorrows of death, the pains of hell, the promises and vows which he made to God to be better, because judgment was not speedily executed, therefore the heart of this poor creature is fully set in him to do evil.

  27. So again: "The pains of hell caught hold upon me, the sorrows of death compassed me about, and I found trouble and sorrow; then I cried unto the Lord.

  28. It is certainly brief; but that is because he is content to say only what he thinks there is to say, whereas his predecessors were at more or less pains to embed the thin thread of biography in a large mat of non-biographical material.

  29. They take the most laudable pains to ascertain what the primitive Gospel was like, and, having settled it to the satisfaction of a certain number, they rest from their labours.

  30. And by no amount of taking pains in the matter of the left foot could the king get the child into the routine of walking.

  31. She had no place amongst the people, and had so many pains and such a barrenness of existence that any one who had thought of her would have wondered that she remained alive.

  32. Is it just the truth read backwards—the truth, namely, that by his taking pain we have pleasures, which they have had handed down to them as this—that our taking pleasure pains him.

  33. And is that the meaning of what they say that our pleasure pains him?

  34. If ever fruitless but endless care was shown to prevent misunderstanding, it was shown in the pains taken by Shakespeare to obviate the misconstruction which would impute to Falstaff the quality of a Parolles or a Bobadil, a Bessus or a Moron.

  35. How he came ever to fall across such a subject, to hit upon such a choice, we can spend no profitable time or pains in trying to conjecture.

  36. He went patiently on in his dull way, keeping his pains and troubles to himself.

  37. Day after day, night after night, pains and fears increase: death draws nearer.

  38. The merchant Yussuf took great pains to train up his only son in prudence, that he might be able, when he was no more, to carry on his business, as he had done before him, with credit and success.

  39. I really think that if I take as much pains as you do, and go there twice a day to show her, she will be able to fit me splendidly.

  40. All other Pleasures are but Pains to this, A Married Couple only, finds the Bliss.

  41. The Husband all this while concludes her Chaste, And little thinks she spends his Wealth so fast, 'Till Pocky Pains begins to smart below, Then mildly asks her if she made him so?

  42. And, to escape the convent, Françoise consented to become the wife of the "bundle of pains and deformities" old enough to be her father.

  43. She was suffering such horrible pains in her toes and under the feet," says the Duchess, "that tears came to her eyes.

  44. They resolved to bleed her; but it was difficult to bring her to it, for her pains were so great that the least touch of the sheets made her shriek.

  45. Ralegh glanced in it at his bodily sufferings and fatigue: 'There is never a base slave in the fleet hath taken the pains and care that I have done; hath slept so little, and travailed so much.

  46. Had he coveted more he would have been at more pains to stamp his verses.

  47. Ralegh was ever at pains to remove any specific grievance.

  48. In the olden days of leeches and witchcraft, it was considered sacrilegious to lessen the pains of labor.

  49. There are steady pains at the commencement of the menstrual flow, and they increase in violence and become decidedly expulsive.

  50. The next morning the pains were all gone.

  51. Occasional attacks of nausea and vomiting are common; pains in the limbs and loins, which are often mistaken for rheumatism.

  52. It is for this reason that neither time nor pains have been spared in perfecting an alterative, tonic, nutritive, restorative, and antiseptic compound, to which Dr.

  53. Suffered from constipation; cutting pains about the stomach and rumbling in the bowels; exceedingly nervous; indigestion.

  54. Retroversion is indicated by bearing-down pains in the loins and difficulty in evacuating the bowels.

  55. Or, if pains cease suddenly without the other symptoms abating, the import is bad.

  56. Colic is a term applied to griping pains in the abdomen, which are sometimes accompanied with nausea and vomiting.

  57. The staff of physicians and nurses spare no pains to make the visit of every one pleasant as well as beneficial in the highest degree.

  58. I was troubled with bearing down pains and pains in my back whenever I would be on my feet any length of time.

  59. The attack may be sudden, although it is usually preceded by a sensation of uneasiness and colicky pains in the stomach.

  60. Gentlemen--For years I suffered monthly from periodic pains which at times were so acute as to render life a burden.

  61. Then the hero Lemminkainen, Made from cares the fleetest racers, Sable racers from his sorrows, Reins he made from days of evil, From his sacred pains made saddles.

  62. Thus the blacksmith, Ilmarinen, Stills the pains by fire engendered, Stills the agonies and tortures Brought him by the child of evil, Brought him by the wicked Panu.

  63. This young physician applied himself with ardour to learn the truths of the Christian religion; but the most remarkable circumstance was, that he took no pains to hide the faith he had in his heart.

  64. In other words, Victoria Cassilis, having once succeeded in making him visit her, spared no pains to bring him constantly to her house, and to make it seem as if he was that innocent sort of cicisbeo whom English society allows.

  65. Then go, and spare neither pains nor money.

  66. He seemed to take special pains to be civil and cordial in his manner to Mr Thurston, and Frank felt a little annoyed at Gerald's somewhat ungracious reception of his friendly overtures.

  67. I don't think hitherto any one has taken much pains to draw out what Roma calls `his best.

  68. But Sydney and I have taken pains to get this person to make our things in the way we like, and I do not care about being too fashionable.

  69. Small wonder that They should have taken the pains to unroll before their eyes the truths of Their respective Revelations, and should have expatiated on Their woes and sufferings.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ado; assiduity; attempt; care; correction; deserts; diligence; discipline; effort; endeavor; energy; exertion; force; industry; infliction; judgment; labor; muscle; pain; pains; painstaking; pay; payment; penalty; penology; retribution; scourge; thoroughness; travail; trouble; while; work