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  • noun Plural form of pang.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pang.

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Examples

  • The good ones will have the women in pangs long after these guys have moved on.

    Page 2 2009

  • The good ones will have the women in pangs long after these guys have moved on.

    Page 2 2009

  • The good ones will have the women in pangs long after these guys have moved on.

    Page 2 2009

  • The good ones will have the women in pangs long after these guys have moved on.

    Page 2 2009

  • In this sense is the word pangs or sorrows, in this place to be understood; and it agrees not only with the sense of the prophet alleged, but with a most common phrase and opinion in the nation concerning the sorrows of the

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • When she is delivered out of Babylon, and redeemed from the hand of her enemies there, yet still she is in pangs of fear; the end of one trouble is but the beginning of another; for now also, when Jerusalem is in the rebuilding, many nations are gathered against her, v. 11.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • She is carried captive to Babylon, and there is in pangs of grief.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Mine are 22 and 24, still living at home and believe it or not, when they're really sick the pangs are the same, in my eyes they revert to 3 year olds!

    Flush 2009

  • Here, too, is the habit which you are to wear; its dark colour will recall the pangs which I suffered on the day when I stood by the Cross of my only Son.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Thereupon God became angered and hostile 35 towards the beings whom he had formerly exalted in beauty and glory: he created for the traitors a marvelous abode as penalty for their action, namely the pangs of

    Genesis A Translated from the Old English Lawrence Mason 1890

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