Synonym: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous. Similar words: harrow, throw in, arrow, narrow, sparrow, flowing, owing to, blowing. Meaning: ['hærəʊɪŋ] adj. extremely painful.
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31. The case made harrowing reading, but far worse was the account of how passers-by behaved.
32. Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.
33. Meanwhile, the scarred veteran Inman is experiencing his own harrowing, perilous odyssey as the Civil War rages on.
34. What should be a harrowing 90 minutes in hell ends up another tedious tourist nightmare devoid of historical perspective.
35. The book is a harrowing account of his stepfather's abuse.
36. No, Mr Holman,(sentencedict .com) don't let your harrowing experience this morning send you into the realms of fantasy.
37. "Rid Of Me" is harrowing, uneasy listening.
38. At the shelters, others told still more harrowing tales.
39. A light harrowing will follow to cover the seed.
40. Her description is powerful, harrowing and brave.
41. The subcommittee's harrowing report was virtually ignored by the news media.
42. It was a harrowing journey, not least for Eliza, who reportedly was heavily pregnant at the time and wound up giving birth in the badly leaking longboat; the infant died shortly afterward.
43. The women want to learn ploughing and harrowing. Whom can we get to teach them?
44. Her harrowing experiences brought many of the audience to tears.
45. For all of Nansen's protean accomplishments, it was the harrowing journey of the Fram between 1893 and 1896 that gave his life story real drama.
46. Carmine is made, literally, from ground-up cochineal insects, which is just a more harrowing way of saying mashed red beetles.
47. The witness statement given by Mr Polanski's victim still makes harrowing reading (though she has long since settled with him in a civil-law suit, and has supported his efforts to close the case).
48. Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.
49. After the entrance of waiting, I became the most harrowing time.
50. Less theatrical, but equally harrowing, is the Museum of Genocide Victims, housed in a former KGB prison in central Vilnius where hundreds were tortured and killed.
51. Last night's harrowing television pictures plumbed new depths of depravity.
52. To compromise would have been more harrowing than and jungles we had to trudge trudge through.
53. I've just returned from what is likely to be the most harrowing investigative jaunt of my career, a four-day slog through teeming streets filled with screaming children.
54. I'm finally starting to feel like my old, precancer self, as if I've finally returned home from a long and harrowing journey through dark and dangerous lands with plenty of earthy tales to tell.
55. Reports of great white shark encounters with humans have been abundant this summer, with a few harrowing incidents of sharks circling tourist and fishing boats yielding dramatic images.
56. Makhmalbaf adapts the volatile terrain to his story, such as in a harrowing and memorable scene set in a medical camp populated by limbless mine explosion victims.
57. No one negates history out whim, but only under the impact of harrowing and unsuspected tragedies.
58. It follows after three harrowing bars. Piano and orchestra swirl up into one blazing, diabolic cacophony in which the practised ear may detect the thumping opening theme of the movement.
59. Still, being on the business end of a med student's first exam can be harrowing , according to this dispatch from a Slate reporter.
60. The film is harrowing exploration of moral, spiritual and emotional bankruptcy.