Painful

//ˈpeɪn.fl̩//

"Painful" in a Sentence (16 examples)

It's so painful. Stop it!

It's painful to keep sitting for hours.

That might be the most painful experience in my life.

The unconscious person feels no pain, but for the family and friends it can be a long and painful experience.

Any task may become painful.

Throughout the five years of painful cancer treatments, he managed to keep a stiff upper lip.

I have ulcers in my mouth, so it's very painful when I eat.

It's painful making love.

Many painful memories inhabited her mind.

Clutching my painful wound...

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In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.

A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.

The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it.

For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle

His violin playing is painful.

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