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How to use painfully in a sentence

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El Guerrouj is painfully aware that he has won everything apart from the Olympic title.
He's also painfully anxious not to give offence, and you wonder if he's almost too nice for his own good.
He coughed again, more painfully, and now his lips were flecked with blood.
The main character of this painfully hilarious racial satire stretches to prove he's really a down white boy.
The grunts of effort, hateful little bursts of sound, are painfully frequent.
Chester sat up in bed painfully, and sputtered some nonsense about suing the hospital.
Once considered painfully shy, he is now notorious for being surly and unwilling to suffer fools.
So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone that I find most of it laughable.
The process may have been low-key and painfully slow, but it has seen the old Republican gods and heroes repudiated.
But moments of effective humor are rare oases amidst a desert of painfully unfunny and sophomoric material.
He'd seemed astounded, but poor Ryan had been making himself painfully obvious.
Tool will not be moving over for Klaxons, because Klaxons aren't very good musicians and are being painfully gimmicky with their occultness.
The engine oiler had a painfully swollen jaw, apparently from an abscessed tooth.
To all you backstabbers, haters and bastards, I hope you die slowly and painfully!
That's what comes from subjecting oneself to confusion and some painfully obvious bias on both sides of the argument.
As we have painfully learnt during periods of national food shortages, it is expensive and wasteful to let crops rot for lack of storage space.
I felt my stomach churn painfully, heaving viciously before I had time to react.
Lydia could feel herself falling swiftly into the dark blue caverns of Gerhard's eyes as she let herself be lulled by his painfully true words.
Her hands were bound together by a painfully tight rope, chafing badly at her wrists.
Nor do its people feel any need to hide their light under a bushel like the painfully self-conscious and underconfident Scots.
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They reminded her of sorrows in which I have since painfully learned to sympathise.
But Lou was jolly and frank and offhanded, while Ruth was painfully shy and reserved, and that was the secret of the whole matter.
I gave her a pat on the chin scarcely consistent with my aged and tottering mien and proceeded to shamble painfully to my room.
Again, Garson was forced to wet his lips with a dry tongue, and to swallow painfully.
He immediately clamored for the wherewithal to fill an aching void that was making itself painfully felt in his midsection.
Whether they vivisect painfully or painlessly, they are trying to find out whether the truth is there or not.
The Gaon's proclamation hinted at this work, and its author felt painfully hurt by the attack.
But seen from the wet and rolling decks, in this weather and these circumstances, it only impresses one giddily and painfully.
But she was irresponsive because she was shy, uncomfortably, painfully shy.
She began to cripple and jig most painfully for one of her size and dignity.
Indeed, it was only on leave-taking, and then far from painfully, you were reminded of being in an inn.
And, as Turpin had done, so also did he painfully crawl towards the stream.
The chapel which had been wont to recall Lambert most painfully to her mind was now unentered.
It is the sharp, uncouth, or unharmonious clashing of heterogeneous consonants which strikes the ear painfully.
He bit his tongue painfully in covering that slip, but dryad had not seemed to notice it.
But writhe as he liked, his darting glances always painfully returned to the still victim on the charpoy.
As he saw it, society would grow better only through the painfully slow and arduously painful processes of evolution.
Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
Fellingham parried him with a sedate gravity of irony that was painfully perceptible to anisette.
At one particular and vital point this shows painfully, and that is her slowness in socializing her home.
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