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"Harrowing" in a Sentence (16 examples)
The movie is a harrowing depiction of life in an urban slum.
It was a harrowing experience.
Tom made a harrowing escape.
Carlos lost nearly 12 kg as the coronavirus ravaged his body for two weeks, at one point necessitating a harrowing ambulance trip to the hospital.
It was the most harrowing experience of my life.
Among the many stories of World War Two, Nazi Germany's Siege of Leningrad — the Soviet city now known as Russia's Saint Petersburg — stands among the most harrowing.
After a harrowing interlude in Djibouti, where she says Oromo asylum-seekers were being rounded up and deported because of an agreement with the Ethiopian government, Ranna's smuggler booked her, her mother and her brother on a flight to Indonesia.
He peppered his talks with harrowing stories from his career that make you wonder how he sleeps at night.
Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
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The field received two harrowings.
Scientists who complain about the helplessness of politicians might consider the desolation in England which followed the harrowing of the north by William the Conqueror or the state of the Palatinate long after the end of the Thirty Years War[.]
As in other myths, like Christ's harrowing of hell, the initiate descends into the netherworld for the magical three days.
In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven.
The motif of the harrowing of hell was highly influential in the Insular world.
But Juliana's uniquely powerful chaining of the devil is surely meant to recall Christ's harrowing of hell.
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