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'ordeal' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'ordeal' with 3 example sentences.


ordeal noun

: a severe or trying experience

: 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


  • I just went through an ordeal.
  • Bob has to get through this ordeal on his own.
  • It'll be a long ordeal.
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