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Sentences for painful. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use painful in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for painful.

• Painful, or pleasant, or what? (8)
• Painful subject! (8)
• O painful beauty! (10)
• But the effort was painful. (4)
• But what a painful scene, sir! (8)
• His heart gave a little painful jump. (8)
• A silence followed, of rather painful length. (9)
• This painful necessity is unhappily unavoidable. (12)
• It was painful even to hear the name of Peutinger. (5)
• To feel herself slighted by them was very painful. (4)
• A tap on the door broke up his painful cogitations. (8)
• Margarita was possessed with a painful exaltation. (10)
• It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture. (4)
• Temple shared the painful impression produced on me. (10)
• A painful case, Roper; very distressing state of things. (8)
• Renee shut her eyes with a painful rigour of endurance. (10)
• The muscles of her smiles were horribly stiff and painful. (10)
• It was painful to him even to keep a third cousin to himself. (4)
• It was altogether very extraordinary; flattering, but painful. (4)
• The remainder of that day to me was a painful and suffering one. (6)
• The thought of entering it was painful with the shrewdest pain. (10)
• The wish to be of some worth began a painful quickening movement. (10)
• It was in fact the painful gathering of the atoms composing pride. (10)
• Mr. Stone looked up; painful traces of confusion showed in his face. (8)
• The thought was painful; still she could forgive Providence so much. (10)
• After that painful scene the quiet of Nature was wonderfully poignant. (8)
• The good-natured observation of the two strangers was painful to him. (12)
• She wished to be as they had been, reserving her painful independence. (10)
• Why will silly mortals strive to the painful pinnacles of championship? (10)
• That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance! (4)
• To watch him was painful, so feeble had he grown; I was glad to get away. (8)
• It was their joint tribute to the painful past, and they had paid no other. (9)
• Could she open her mouth at all without rousing painful feeling of some sort? (8)
• Barbara sustained that painful grip without wincing; she had regained her calmness. (8)
• Struck by his words, which were accompanied by a painful puckering of the checks, Mr. (8)
• The countenance of Mr. Raikes at the conclusion of this speech was a painful picture. (10)
• Here and there a painful doubt obtruded itself and marred them with its awkward shadow. (9)
• She felt no nervousness and no hostility, only a sort of painful interest and admiration. (8)
• For some few painful moments the farmer could not speak, and his hand was raised rejectingly. (10)
• A sense of loneliness was on him, so real, so painful, that he shivered in the sweltering heat. (8)
• To her, who knew the plot of this tragi-comedy, its most dramatic moment was well-nigh painful. (8)
• At those naive words, a painful wish to laugh seized on Gyp, making her shiver from head to foot. (8)
• She expressed her gratitude again, but it was too painful a subject to each, to be dwelt on farther. (4)
• This was painful and humiliating; he had never heard of any secretary having to use his imagination! (8)
• Memories, feelings, which she had thought quite dead, revived within her, painful, sullen, tenacious. (8)
• The monkey saluted militarily, but with painful suggestions of his foregone drilling in the ceremony. (10)
• He could not then avoid it, but her touch seemed painful to him, and he held her hand only for a moment. (4)
• My arm had now become so painful, that I was obliged to ask Trevanion to assist me in getting off my coat. (6)
• None of her heavy burdens enchained, though she knew the weight of them, with those of other painful souls. (10)
• Mrs. Doria laid painful stress on the scandal, and though he did not give his mind to this, he thought of it. (10)
• It even gave her no feeling of remorse to think she was going to do what would be so painful to the good Colonel. (8)
• There are moments when the expression of a face fixes itself with painful clearness; to Shelton this was such a moment. (8)
• An accident, happy in its result, but threatening for a moment a painful disaster, made a pause at Budapest a necessity. (20)
• He had not been sitting there for half-an-hour revolving the painful complexities of national life before the voice of Mrs. (8)
• Long and painful reflection brought him back continually to the thought that he himself, and not Bianca, had better go away. (8)
• The thought was extremely painful, for it seemed to disclose to him grave inconsistency in the recent management of his life. (8)
• At that instant, she felt that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion. (4)
• In fact, the mineral paint business, however painful its interest, was, for the moment, superseded by a more poignant anxiety. (9)
• To Anne herself it was most distressing to see Mr Elliot enter the room; and quite painful to have him approach and speak to her. (4)
• Her voice sounded to him like that of a broken-throated lamb, so painful and weak it was, with the plaintive stop in the utterance. (10)
• This, it would seem, she cannot do: she is compelled by the painful restriction sadly to consent that one of them should be swept away. (10)
• She flew about her room, feeling that if she once stood still it would all crystallise in hard painful thought, which motion alone kept away. (8)
• I have dwelt, perhaps too long upon this painful subject; but let my reader now accompany me a little farther, and the scene shall be changed. (6)
• The glare of the sun was reflected into our eyes with painful brilliancy; a few dazzling clouds hung in the sky, apparently quite stationary. (20)
• Whitwell turned and slouched down the hill, leaving the painter to the most painful moment he had known with Jeff Durgin, and nearer sympathy. (9)
• Westover could only feel a painful interest tinged with amusement in his grotesque misconceptions of the world where he had not yet begun to right himself. (9)
• It is painful to confess that Marlowe received this solemn statement with less of gravity than was due to the mysterious nature of the calamity foreshadowed. (1)

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