DISCOMFORT in a Sentence

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They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCOMFORT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discomfort
 n.  distress; uneasiness; mental or bodily distress
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  This sense of physical discomfort was the first to assert itself; then she perceived, beneath it, a corresponding mental prostration, a languor of horror more insufferable than the first rush of her disgust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  The sense of being once more lapped and folded in ease, as in some dense mild medium impenetrable to discomfort, effectually stilled the faintest note of criticism.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  Her danger lay, as she knew, in her old incurable dread of discomfort and poverty; in the fear of that mounting tide of dinginess against which her mother had so passionately warned her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5  She became secretary to a New York millionaire and social counselor to his wife; and after a well-conceived speech on the discomfort of having money, she married his son.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  She forgot her every doubt of him, and her discomfort in his background.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Edna seated herself with every appearance of discomfort.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
8  She did not ask him to remain, which he was grateful for, as it permitted him to stay without the discomfort of blundering through an excuse which he had no intention of considering.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
9  The dog sighed with discomfort on the mat.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
10  But Thomasin's imagination being so actively engaged elsewhere, the night and the weather had for her no terror beyond that of their actual discomfort and difficulty.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
11  At this time it was in her view a windy, wet place, in which a person might experience much discomfort, lose the path without care, and possibly catch cold.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
12  I was in an agony of discomfort.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  There shall be no flurry, no scolding, no discomfort, but a neat house, a cheerful wife, and a good dinner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
14  "If that's the way he's going to grow up, I wish he'd stay a boy," she thought, with a curious sense of disappointment and discomfort, trying meantime to seem quite easy and gay.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15  His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA
Example Sentence:
1  You will experience some minor discomfort during the treatment.
2  He sings with the strained discomfort of someone whose voice hasn't quite broken.
3  Within a few days she had become seriously ill, suffering great pain and discomfort.
4  Some patients don't refer to the discomfort of angina as an ache; rather they describe it as sudden sharp pains.
5  This drug will relieve your discomfort.
6  If the exercise causes discomfort, stop immediately.
7  Steve had some discomfort, but no real pain.
8  What pain or discomfort has caused you to want to make this change?
9  They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.