How to Use pang in a Sentence

pang

noun
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  • On being picked up he was found to be in the pangs of death.
    — James Karst, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • These pangs go away in about a day or two, just in time for the DOMS to peak.
    — Jack Izzo, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • Not a good idea as a pang of vertigo stops me on my tracks.
    — Alireza Hajihosseini, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In August Jack Dorsey was struck with a pang of remorse.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But the pangs of embarrassment and shame takes longer to go away.
    — Kui Mwai, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
  • So daily car commuters may love their rides, if with a pang of guilt.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 11 July 2019
  • His poems knock the wind out of you, first with laughter, then with pangs of heartbreak.
    — Jacob Gedetsis, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
  • O’Brien at first felt a pang of gratitude toward the RMV.
    — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • After Bianca’s text, a pang of guilt stabbed its way through my grief.
    — Rachel Mason, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The ache of it drives us to seek out social connection just as hunger pangs urge us to eat.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But now our state’s food is really going to make the rest of the country feel a hunger pang.
    — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • This could mean more weight loss, less hunger pangs, and more energy.
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The veiled forms come forward and recede, as if pangs of pain, swelling to the surface only to fall back again.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • When his doctor called after the second CT and told him that the mass in his chest had grown, the man felt a pang of real fear.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The WhatsApp group for parents from Sydney was abuzz with pangs of despair and grief.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • After all, even die-hard monogamists tend to feel pangs of desire for others.
    — Tara Struyk, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2018
  • New Year’s Day 2021 started with a pang of sadness for Aida Bueno.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • During the dark of winter this year in Indianapolis, Tim Williams felt the pangs of heartache.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Joe Reed has a twinkle in his eye as Tony, but also lets the audience see the weight on his mind and the pangs of regret.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2019
  • But besides low white blood cell counts and some serious hunger pangs, they were all said to be in good health.
    — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
  • Many felt the pang of conscience; some may have assumed that slavery would expire on its own.
    — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • Still, Ford felt a pang when watching a load of burros leave the site, their ears visible through slats in the trailer.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Those who encountered her for the first time could feel pangs of sympathy.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Amid the celebration, Edmonds felt a pang of heartache.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
  • That's what Patches O'Houlihan could do, as well as chuck about 1,000 gym balls at your head and extremities and feel not a pang of shame or guilt.
    — Esquire, 16 Nov. 2015
  • The story goes that Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, asked for tea and a light snack in her room in the late afternoon to fight the midday hunger pangs.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • No need to risk missing your boarding call to satisfy your hunger pangs.
    — Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Shiv, who leads the siblings’ charge, feels a pang of envy that their dad has kept her brother closer all season and moves to sweet-talk him in the room.
    — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2021
  • But before putting pen to paper Wednesday, there were a few nervous pangs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • There are still pangs of grief for Big, but Parker handles them with tender humor.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023

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