PAIN in a Sentence

Learn PAIN from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PAIN, below is one of 392 sentences:
Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pain
 n.  a bothersome annoying person
 n.  something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  She drew her mild brows into a frown of pain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  She looked down the road for him, the pain in her heart swelling up again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Anger and hurt pride drove out some of the pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  "Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Despite her heartache and the pain of unshed tears, a deep sense of quiet and peace fell upon Scarlett as it always did at this hour.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  A hard little pain had started in her heart and was traveling slowly up toward her throat where it would become a lump and the lump would soon become tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett's throat and she wailed out loud--not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  Scarlett said nothing but her eyes glittered and her heart contracted with a little pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  The pain of moving his eyes was too excruciating to be borne and he groaned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  The day was hot and the flies came in the open windows in swarms, fat lazy flies that broke the spirits of the men as pain could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  The tide of smells and pain rose and rose about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
16  The wind is too with the pain you give is blown away.
17  I have a pain in the middle of my back.
18  If you leave me, please don't comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain.
19  Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
20  Friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
21  No one can understand the hurt and pain of life, not a time to be able to recover, I can only share memory protection.
22  Colic describes a whole variety of conditions in which a horse suffers abdominal pain.
23  He resisted the pain, tried to bring the weapon to bear.
24  One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.
25  Every time he put any weight on his left leg he winced in pain.
26  He was maddened by the pain and jumped out of the window.
27  Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
28  Within a few days she had become seriously ill, suffering great pain and discomfort.
29  England's World Cup hero is determined to play through the pain barrier.
30  The bones begin to grind against each other, leading to pain and deformity.