agonize - use in sentences

Preposition: over

  • decision: Governments or community leaders agonize over a decision to go to war.

Object

  • cry: Remember Moses's agonized cry, " Blot me.
  • minute: The horse usually does not die for an agonizing ten minutes.
  • wait: Now we just have the agonizing wait for Twilight Princess, which from what I've seen looks amazing!

Infinitive complement

  • enter: The Kingdom is to those who strive, who agonize to enter it, whose hearts are shattered over their sinfulness.

Modifying Another Word

  • yet: OUP have always favored -ize, so surprisingly it's criticize yet compromise, and agonize yet televise.
  • down: It brings closure to traumatic events and stops you agonizing deep down that you should have.. .
  • really: It may sound silly, but I'm really agonizing over this.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • over: These are wonders to be celebrated, not threats to be agonized over.

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