DISCOMFORT in a Sentence
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38 example sentences for DISCOMFORT, such as:
1. I was in an agony of discomfort.
2. This drug will relieve your discomfort.
3. The dog sighed with discomfort on the mat.
4. Steve had some discomfort, but no real pain.
5. If the exercise causes discomfort, stop immediately.
2. This drug will relieve your discomfort.
3. The dog sighed with discomfort on the mat.
4. Steve had some discomfort, but no real pain.
5. If the exercise causes discomfort, stop immediately.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISCOMFORT
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discomfort
n. an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
n. the state of being tense and feeling pain
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
6 She forgot her every doubt of him, and her discomfort in his background.
7 Edna seated herself with every appearance of discomfort.
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.
9 The dog sighed with discomfort on the mat.
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
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
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
12 I was in an agony of discomfort.
13 There shall be no flurry, no scolding, no discomfort, but a neat house, a cheerful wife, and a good dinner.
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.
15 His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.
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.