harrowing story
collocation in Englishmeaningsofharrowingandstory
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harrowing
adjective
uk/ˈhær.əʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈher.oʊ.ɪŋ/
extremely upsetting because connected ...
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story
noun[C]
uk/ˈstɔː.ri/us/ˈstɔːr.i/
a description, either true or imagined, of a connected series ...
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(Definition ofharrowingandstoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She phoned her mum, told herharrowingstory, and asked if she could return to the family home.
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We have had a veryharrowingstoryfrom the other side.
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I have here a sheaf of letters from farmers which tell aharrowingstoryof the losses that they have sustained.
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They are usually painted by somebody and often there is aharrowingstoryattached to them.
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He told us a veryharrowingstorywith regard to the conditions prevailing in slum houses and slum factories.
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The book tells aharrowingstorywhere truth is stranger than fiction.
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Callousness betokens villainy, and in truth there are no villains in thisharrowingstory.
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I have had 100 calls already followed by harrowing stories of people sleeping on the floor.
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She gave some harrowing stories, which the women's organisations will know of, of small children drinking fluids containing chemicals.
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We have read harrowing stories of people who have gone to live there and who have had to return because of the rampant inflation.
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We have already heard harrowing stories of what is happening in many cases, and we have read of others.
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However, we hear harrowing stories of different situations.
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They are harrowing stories, as well as in many cases being uplifting because of the spirit with which such privation is borne by some people.
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All these harrowing stories about the operation of the law are the ordinary working of the county court, which applies to anything.
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We have all read harrowing stories about the number of birds that arrive dead, or die after arrival before they can be disposed of.
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We heard harrowing stories about what actually happened to many young people leaving care.
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Some of them tell the most harrowing stories.
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She told us the most harrowing stories.
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Popular resolution will be undermined by harrowing stories of the plight of hostages and refugees.
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