PAINFUL in a Sentence

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392 example sentences for PAINFUL, such as:
1. Elinor's office was a painful one.
2. He sobbed as he recalled the painful memory.
3. She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
4. Goodbye without reasons is the most painful one.
5. Movement can be painful when you've hurt your back.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PAINFUL
painful
 a.  causing misery or pain or distress
 a.  causing physical or psychological pain
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
4  It may be true that, to a sensitive observer, there was some thing exquisitely painful in it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5  It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
6  Nay, the longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard; and sometimes, for a few painful minutes, she believed it to be no more than friendship.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  I love Willoughby, sincerely love him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
8  As these considerations occurred to her in painful succession, she wept for him, more than for herself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
9  And as she could now have nothing more painful to hear on the subject than had already been told, she did not mistrust her own ability of going through a repetition of particulars with composure.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
10  He could not then avoid it, but her touch seemed painful to him, and he held her hand only for a moment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
11  Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  Elinor's office was a painful one.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
13  But her promise of relating it to her sister was invariably painful.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45
14  As I walked on to the hotel, I felt that a dread, much exceeding the mere apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition, made me tremble.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
15  After an interval of suspense on my part that was quite enthralling and almost painful, I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVII
Example Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
1  The most painful goodbyes are the ones that never said, but your heart already know it's over.
2  Although patience and persistence is a painful thing, but it can gradually bring you the benefits.
3  Although patience and persistence is a painful thing, but it can gradually bring you good.
4  Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time,because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful.
5  Movement can be painful when you've hurt your back.
6  Goodbye without reasons is the most painful one.
7  It is because of heart bottom touch that empty, so he just so painful.
8  Betraying a trust is a very quick and painful way to terminate a friendship.
9  Divorce is very painful, especially when children are concerned.
10  Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point.
11  The area can be very painful until scabs form after about ten days.
12  To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
13  She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
14  The story of her sufferings was painful to listen to.
15  He sobbed as he recalled the painful memory.