An effortful attempt to attain a goal.
1 Friends said the pains were the result of a previous hernia injury.
2 The authorities take great pains to prevent citizens from accessing the internet.
3 She said the long, long day was as bad as labour pains .
4 She was maybe fifty, but had taken great pains to look younger.
5 Expectant mothers toiled in the fields until they felt their labor pains .
6 Witness attributed the pains in the head to the effect of shell-shock.
7 Apparently she took great pleasure in the pains and misfortunes of others.
8 These they spared no pains in educating for usefulness in the world.
9 As Theresa May has been at pains to stress: Allardyce means Allardyce.
10 Whilst she was at police station she started complaining of labour pains .
11 As in many other industries, the on-demand economy is experiencing growing pains .
12 I work miracles; you once took the pains to write me so.
13 She had fever regularly, and the pains in her head became intolerable.
14 Marie Garcia said her pains were coming at four- or five-minute intervals.
15 He says the growing pains means that the country is getting wealthier.
16 The smoke was stifling, and the pains of dissolution in my heart.
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