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Sentence count:210+9Posted:2016-10-26Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: experiencetesttrialtribulationSimilar words: orderborderin orderdealidealdisorderin order toout of orderMeaning: [ɔr'dɪːl /ɔː'd-]  n. 1. a severe or trying experience 2. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence. 
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121. Charges against Louima were later dropped, and he testified about his ordeal in three criminal trials.
122. It was all over now, this ordeal which Merrill had anticipated with hope and dread.
123. Only the truly committed can withstand the ordeal. Throughout life, remediation is harder than prevention.
124. Christopher, of Bognor Regis, Sussex, was rushed to hospital, where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal.
125. The three week trial turned out to be an emotional ordeal for everyone involved.
126. The ants are so minute that they can dodge the rays and so survive the ordeal.
127. He worked to dispel his doubts about his friend as though to pass another test, like his ordeal in the park.
128. The rest of the film shows their ordeal as they make repeated assaults on the steep, mud-slick, heavily fortified hill.
129. He stood for a moment, eyes closed, recovering from the ordeal, and then lit a cigarette.
130. Some learners find it an ordeal to appear before a camera.
131. But still we could not discover the why of this ordeal by steel.
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132. After many hair-raising adventures, most not only survive but emerge wiser and stronger as a result of their harrowing ordeal.
133. Police said she probably survived because she faked death during the ordeal.
134. But those who were adequately prepared clearly relished the challenge, and emerged even stronger from the ordeal.
135. After thirty-six hours during which Kim was permitted to speak publicly of his ordeal, he was placed under house arrest.
136. That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress.
137. But he is rescued, along with others, and the whole terrifying ordeal, he discovers, becomes a big joke.
138. Right now, after her ordeal, she was shaken out of antagonism.
139. Farnham saw California not as an ordeal by hunger but as a trial by opinion.
140. Police said Stanton was hit on the back of the head with a gun during the ordeal.
141. Having a will professionally drawn up is not a terrible ordeal and it need not take long to explain your wishes.
142. She'd never get through the ordeal without cracking up completely.
143. A small, youthful woman with long dark hair, Mullen speaks with quiet anger about the ordeal.
144. This can be an ordeal for both the mother and eventually also very distressing for the child.
145. Wayne's account of his ordeal was published in On the Level, the quarterly journal of the multi-storey freaks.
146. No one should be subjected to this sort of ordeal, especially in their own home.
147. Despite his ordeal, Weathers was far more fortunate than others trapped in the blizzard.
148. Shell-shocked Liverpool recovered to force a 4-4 draw, but the ordeal isn't over yet, says Chesterfield boss Chris McMenemy.
149. Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced.
150. It was the fourth time during the campaign that Mr Major had faced ordeal by egg.
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