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Meanings of agony in anglès
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Examples for "torture"
Examples for "torture"
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So the question remains: how long will Ireland continue to torture women?
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Contemporary Greece was described as a classic case of government by torture.
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The judge also said the claim of police torture carried no weight.
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Those groups say state torture is widespread, an allegation the government denies.
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Ms Smith told Sky News: We absolutely oppose torture in this country.
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People are quite able to torment one another without aid of magic.
2
The outstretched planes of the Cross swept up as though in torment.
3
Determined to continue, Liam had no choice but to stop the torment.
4
But in the torment of Hell shall the wicked remain for ever:
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The days before she saw him again her body was in torment.
It is no longer an incurable disease, but you have to pay a high cost of treatment.
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Usage of agony in anglès
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If they try to feed on them, it causes them physical agony.
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All that agony of mortality-justto deal with the problem of entropy.
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Losing in Lisbon hurt; defeat in Milan two years later was agony.
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The culprit passed a sleepless night in the intolerable agony of lear.
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But the Iraq agony is not going to end any time soon.
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What agony of mind must Hetty be in, let alone physical danger?
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I understood its remoteness; in my agony I was part of it.
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She wrung her hands and sat down in agony in the hall.
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The girl wailed out again in agony and writhed in her bonds.
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For years after the war, even the smallest decision was an agony.
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It was the agony of death; it was a struggle for life.
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It is a torture long and slow; the agony and bloody sweat.
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The waves writhed and tossed on the surface as if in agony.
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The girl sank down on the road in an agony of weeping.
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All the delicacy in him felt the agony of her outraged reserve.
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Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world.
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Agony across language varieties
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