Discomfort

//dɪsˈkʌmfət//

"Discomfort" in a Sentence (15 examples)

And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"

I sensed with discomfort that the two of them might ridicule me behind my back as a thoughtless, simple-minded satyr.

To avoid injury or discomfort, be sure that the vagina is lubricated before intercourse.

The thought that in a few hours they would reach a country where there were no schools, no books, no teachers, made these boys so happy that they felt neither hunger, nor thirst, nor sleep, nor discomfort.

Embarrassment is an emotional state of intense discomfort with oneself, experienced upon having a socially unacceptable act or condition.

Tom hasn't complained of any discomfort.

I was in an agony of discomfort.

Are you experiencing any discomfort?

Although thermostats can be adjusted manually, programmable thermostats will avoid any discomfort by returning temperatures to normal before you wake or return home.

Extremely small bugs, called mites, can get under our skin. And when they do, they cause itching and great discomfort.

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[…] although overcrowding on the trains running via London Bridge has occasioned considerable discomfort to regular travellers, it was noticed that the alternative route was not extensively patronised, and that the trains were seldom more than half-filled.

The Western operating authorities are wisely concentrating their main line diesel power at individual sheds, beginning with Laira, so that engine-crews do not have the rather demoralising experience of switching about constantly between the comfort and ease of diesel handling and the relative discomfort and hard work of the steam footplate, as on other Regions.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.

His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us.

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