| Peta's meetings with strangers are sometimes funny, occasionally ridiculous or excruciatingly embarrassing. |
| When the most basic things aren't being done, or done so excruciatingly badly, it just makes me despair. |
| His jaw had to be chiseled away at, literally gouged out in an excruciatingly painful operation that took almost an hour. |
| His hands were bound excruciatingly tightly to the thick steel pole running along the back of his neck. |
| Casey ran around the small oval, puffing and panting, limping on her left foot, the blister throbbing excruciatingly. |
| Louis was listening to the man's bragging, his manner growing increasingly frosty, and Beth appeared excruciatingly uncomfortable. |
