Converse of object

• feel: I felt a pang of fear creep in deep down to the pit of my stomach.

• suffer: My womb, which did not suffer the pangs of childbirth, is wracked with pain, beholding Thee suffering agony, O Master!

• keep: This year it is hoped to have a big pan of broth on the boil to keep the hunger pangs at bay.

• experience: IAN: I've never experienced any pangs of jealousy about that I must say.

• get: Sandwiches are also available to take away so you can enjoy the festival without getting hunger pangs.

Preposition: at

• bay: This year it is hoped to have a big pan of broth on the boil to keep the hunger pangs at bay.

Adjective modifier

• sudden: Listening to Test Match Special recently, I felt a sudden pang of sympathy for TMS's veteran producer Peter Baxter.

• sharp: A sharp pang of sorrow shot through him at the thought.

• slight: I must admit to feeling more than a slight pang of emotion!

• little: Sometimes I do feel a little pang of regret because I love science and technology.

Modifies a noun

• strike: But when hunger pangs strike, this placid fish changes character.

Noun used with modifier

• hunger: Instead, the best option is to avoid the hunger pangs in the first place.

• guilt: He would learn to live with moody hangovers and guilt pangs and anyway, they only lasted until the next dram.

• birth: His thought is that these birth pangs may begin in 1996, with the actual birth taking place in 1999?

Preposition: of

• remorse: Few people can see their castles knocked down without pangs of remorse.

• guilt: In disbelief, I felt the first pangs of guilt for failing to be the mother I had always thought myself to be.

• conscience: There would have been a lot of them who would have felt real pangs of conscience about what had happened on that Good Friday.

• jealousy: IAN: I've never experienced any pangs of jealousy about that I must say.

• hunger: Toward the evening of his third day, he had suffered very severely from the pangs of hunger.

• childbirth: And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree.