How to use Agony in Sentences?
- 1. In the centre of the great lofty room he lay and wrestled with an agony that was almost unceasing. 🔊
- 2. I had never seen him weep before; his had always been agony rather than sorrow. 🔊
- 3. His agony was beyond description and did not cease until half-past ten, when he died. 🔊
- 4. There was an agony of hope in the appeal, as of one who sees at hand unexpected deliverance. 🔊
- 5. I tried to call out, but in that moment of agony and horror my tongue refused to articulate. 🔊
- 6. He longed for night, and he gazed with agony upon the face of his ever-youthful love. 🔊
- 7. They laugh at the agony of unbelievers, mock at their tears, and of their sorrows make a jest. 🔊
- 8. Bereft even of the courage to die, they kneeled, praying that the agony of death might be past. 🔊
- 9. His eyes were strained and bloodshot, and his whole appearance was that of a person in an agony of terror. 🔊
- 10. Then she stamped both feet up and down like an angry child and flung herself face down on the couch in an agony of tears. 🔊
- 11. She could not speak, but in the agony of her terror she threw her arms around and clasped him wildly. 🔊
- 12. There is a delight even in the parting agony of two lovers worth a thousand tame pleasures of the world. 🔊
- 13. Although in great agony he suffered me to carry him to a neighbouring hay-rick, from whence we removed him to his cottage. 🔊
- 14. Thus she had written in her agony and desperation, and sent with the letter the sum of one hundred and ten pounds. 🔊
- 15. In an agony of apprehension, the women clutched their skirts tight about them, protesting and scolding the while. 🔊
- 16. She remembered the agony of those few minutes on the preceding day, when nothing but what still seemed a miracle had saved him. 🔊
- 17. After the years of civil wars which he had lived through in agony of spirit, it is not strange that such a mission seemed to him supreme. 🔊
- 18. Suddenly a vibrating spasm of agony shot through her teeth and flew up like veins of red-hot fluid into her cheeks and eyes. 🔊
- 19. All that day, and for many days after, she almost forgot the terrible problem of her marriage in the agony of her nerves. 🔊
- 20. During the last hour of his agony his wife knelt beside his couch without let or hindrance, and wept inconsolably. 🔊