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What words are used to describe the manner in which someone dies?drop dead keel over slow death sudden death painful death excruciating death gruesome death horrible death die quietly die peacefully die with boots on die fighting fade away succumb (to illness) drown drowning asphyxiate suffocate choke to death sacrifice succumb (to a disease) suffocate suffocation starvation starve starve to death burn to death freeze to death
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Simple sentences
That will be painful.
He died a painful death.
It's so painful. Stop it!
It's painful making love.
Bee stings can be very painful.
Suffering shared is half as painful.
You can feel the worm as a painful strand under the skin.
Tom couldn't think of Mary without remembering how painful their breakup had been.
I pulled a muscle in my back, so work today is going to be a painful experience.
In the days of doubt, in the days of painful brooding over the fate of my fatherland you are my only support, my only solace, oh great, mighty, true and free Russian language!
To tear away from his dream world and, doing the daily needful, to step into reality was for Tom increasingly painful.
It can be painful, but it's also a good opportunity to understand ourselves and our place in life in a better or more nuanced way.
Smoking can cause a slow and painful death.
That might be the most painful experience in my life.
Any task may become painful.
Recently my haemorrhoids, which I've had from before, are painful.
Arthritis is a painful condition that affects the joints.
More painful than any wedge.
It was very painful.
Will this be painful?
Movie subtitles
If I do, this will be the most intense, arduous, And painful training you have ever experienced.
Talking about things from so long ago is painful.
I was just sitting here thinking about you, and, you know, how amazing you've been during this painful, awful time.
Death by strychnine can be very painful.
Most people who don't like to talk about their past don't because it's painful.
Painful awakening. Troubled sleep.
Afraid of awakening painful memories, Bernard said nothing to the Chevalier about his terrible dream.
It's dirty and painful to die for your country.
No doubt you will succeed in making a painful interview intolerable.
The tattoo's too painful.
It's very painful, sir.
Besides, hanging is a very painful death.
It must be painful if it separated.
A bit painful, isn't?
And so, in retiring as president of this college, it is indeed a painful task to bid you all goodbye.
Gentlemen, I have the painful duty of telling you that you are both wrong. the sixes and the nines.
I'm a ship's carpenter when the painful necessity arises.
Nevertheless, at the risk of boring you. it is my painful duty to inform you that 250 of my men. are now complete masters of the town of Port Royal.
I hope my visit did not stir painful memories.
It's pretty painful, I know. But it won't take much longer.
This is a very painful duty for me.
I should have known it would be painful to you. I see it is.
Extremely painful.
This is painful enough without your making it worse.
You can't imagine how painful it was to me.
I find this quite painful.
He finds it painful.
Gentlemen. Do not be unduly depressed by this painful incident.
Is that painful for you?
It's deep and painful. I know that.
And our commonwealth has been saved the painful necessity of shedding blood.
Mr. De Winter, however painful it may be, I have to ask you a very personal question.
I would gladly accept a painful death, if that was even a small help to fatherland.
After all, an ankle can be very painful.
Painful, is it?
I have a most painful matter to discuss with you, Mary.
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd with rainy marching in the painful field.
News and current affairs
It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species - and jeopardize our own future - in a fit of absent-mindedness.
MUNICH - Under substantial external pressure, the eurozone's crisis-hit countries are, at long last, bringing themselves to make painful cuts in their government budgets.
He will be remembered for accepting the painful secession of Eritrea in 1993, rather than prolong the civil war, and for his efforts to reach an agreement with Egypt over the use of the Blue Nile waters.
That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance-sheet deleveraging - reflecting excessive private-sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector - implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below-trend for many years to come.
International finance economists see a financial crisis as likely, followed by a painful and perhaps prolonged recession in the United States.
Painful choices about how to close the long-run fiscal gap should be decided now and implemented promptly once the economy has recovered.
Cutting welfare spending - where the big money is - would be painful.
Sad to say, Japan continues to teach us that some of history's most painful episodes do repeat themselves.
As a result, the principal policy toward Iran centers on the imposition of increasingly painful economic sanctions.
Spillover effects are inevitable, and once a corrosive increase in inflationary expectations sets in, it becomes all the more painful to unwind.
Moreover, without growth, the social and political backlash against painful belt-tightening will eventually undermine austerity and reform.
At stake is a painful choice for Bush: to lead America into coexistence with what he considers a repugnant Islamic theocracy.
The interwar economy, shattered by the Great Depression of the early 1930's, offers a whole series of painful, but important, lessons for the present.
For the time being, though, squabbles over the New Silk Road seem less painful to the two powers than enduring lectures from the West.
A long, painful period of high unemployment runs counter to what most experts believed the flexible US economic model would ever produce.
And the household sector will be only partly through its painful de-leveraging phase.
But this demand for political moderation impedes the search for the radical and painful solutions that Britain needs.
Has an overly forgiving nature prevented Filipinos from achieving closure in so many painful chapters of their history, or are the ravages of impunity to blame?
NEW HAVEN - With much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful austerity-induced slump, it is time to admit that the trap is entirely of our own making.
Indeed, there is already reason enough for them to be nervous: after all, the Fed's epic easing of financial conditions must eventually be followed by exceptionally painful tightening.
But climbing out will be difficult and painful.
It may be painful for many Americans to hear, and it will not impress my opponents.
Households and companies understand this and cease to consume or invest in anticipation of the painful spending cuts and tax hikes to come.
Too many voters, it seems, still do not feel better off, and for good reason: average incomes have barely begun to rise, following seven painful years.