PANG in a Sentence

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But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang.

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 Meanings and Examples of PANG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pang
 n.  a sharp spasm of pain; a mental pain or distress; a sudden sharp feeling
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  The answer sent a pang through him but the tone suffused him with joy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  A pang went through her as she heard an agonized squealing which was suddenly stilled by a pistol shot and she knew that the sow was dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  She felt a pang of almost physical sickness at the thought of so much money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  A queer little pang of jealousy jabbed at her at the thought of Rhett getting married, although why that should be she did not know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
6  But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  And under her sense of the collective indifference came the acuter pang of hopes deceived.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
8  She felt a sudden pang of profound loneliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
9  In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
10  Edna experienced a pang of jealousy because he had written to his mother rather than to her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
11  There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
12  It was with a wrench and a pang that Edna left her children.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
13  She writhed with a jealous pang.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
14  If it must be told, the thing that struck a deeper pang to his heart than anything else was the daily increasing maturity of the child's mind and feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  The pang is over, his sufferings are at an end for ever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  Claudia felt a deep pang of sorrow for her sister.
2  Except for a small pang, her headache has gone.
3  She felt a pang of envy at the thought of his success.
4  Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.