She visited the country in the throes of revolution, and found it unsafe to explore. From LearnThat.org.
Death throes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Too busy thrashing about in throes of existential malaise to so much as look at your Publishing Questions, so please feel free to keep sending. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
As for weather, the worldwide weather scene seems to be in throes from global warming and many past summaries of weather anyplace are not accurate anymore. From Wordnik.com. [Gay scene in San Miguel de Allende] Reference
To plunge into that sumptuous hole while it was in the throes was my pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
It’s pretty obvious you’re not in throes of agony about your situation, given your wry comments. From Wordnik.com. [Flush | Her Bad Mother] Reference
She recalls the throes and death rattles of an often-abusive emphysema patient assigned to her in the home. From Wordnik.com. Reference
WASHINGTON - Astronomers have captured close-up photos of a star writhing in its death throes, which is indicative of the fate that our Sun awaits in the future. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
California was in the last throes of a free-money boom. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Debt Tolls] Reference
The crisis hit a world that was already in the throes of change. From Wordnik.com. [A World as Irrational as Ever] Reference
It shows a couple collapsing in the throes of a hopeless romance. From Wordnik.com. [At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process] Reference
"It's one of these communities that's really in the throes of change.". From Wordnik.com. [Straight Into Compton] Reference
The country at the time was in the throes of an enormous immigration boom. From Wordnik.com. [Stopping the Census Clock] Reference
Latin America scholars see a region in the throes of a governability crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Reaping the Whirlwind] Reference
The Comet up Gassy snowball's death throes are better than July 4 fireworks. From Wordnik.com. [Outer Space Edition] Reference
Three years ago Five Oaks was in the throes of racial transition and decline. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing Up Safer Cities] Reference
When the terrorists struck, fashion was in the throes of its New York show season. From Wordnik.com. [Vive La Mode!] Reference
I expressed my happiness for her, hung up and plunged into the throes of depression. From Wordnik.com. [Mark C. Miller: Trying For a 10 on the Love Relationship Scale] Reference
One commercial for soup had shown a couple on a bed locked in the throes of passion. From Wordnik.com. [Soup] Reference
"It could be that the virus is in the throes of changing and becoming less pathogenic.". From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Bird Flu] Reference
For a party in the death throes of Thatcherism, that combination constitutes a real threat. From Wordnik.com. [Next Stop, 10 Downing Street?] Reference
Most fall unheard and unreported, but look closely and you will see their operatic death throes. From Wordnik.com. [Flight Of The Dot-Coms] Reference
Anyway, what Cheney actually said 17 months ago was that the insurgency was in its "last throes.". From Wordnik.com. [Togetherness In Baghdad] Reference
He's taken to MopTop Island, which is in the throes of a takeover attempt by the fats and sweets. From Wordnik.com. [Our Favorite Sam] Reference
Another boy, in the throes of a temper tantrum, had to be restrained after biting a classroom aide. From Wordnik.com. [I Was Out of a Job--And an Identity] Reference
In the throes of his addiction he could be meaner and more self-centered than most spoiled celebrities. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Honeymooner] Reference
Last spring Cheney was still whistling past the graveyard, describing the Iraqi insurgency as in its "last throes.". From Wordnik.com. [Bush in the Bubble] Reference
Hearing DeShan in the throes they paused, then hustled on — the light bouncing like a manic ant in danger of death. From Wordnik.com. [Adult Summer Sex Camp] Reference
Yet it does not truthfully reflect his frame of mind: he painted it while in the throes of alcoholism and depression. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond 'The Scream'] Reference
His father was in the throes of grief, overwhelmed by losing both Hannah's passion and Leo's innocence in the same season. From Wordnik.com. [Books: “Nothing Right”] Reference
There was a string of industrial disasters, from the retrenchment of giant IBM to the final throes of Pan American Airways. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Massacre] Reference
Today the two countries seem united by an apparent symmetry: both are in the throes of a rising tide of religious extremism. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring The Beast Within] Reference
I don't understand how the U.S. vice president concluded recently that the insurgency terrorizing Iraq was in its "last throes.". From Wordnik.com. [Dog Days of Summer] Reference
"For the next two or three years, it was truly times of death throes" of working day and night to stay ahead of the competition. From Wordnik.com. [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference
In the throes of Internet euphoria, forecasters predicted that the amount of data traveling over the Net would double every three months. From Wordnik.com. [Telecom's Big Tumble] Reference
In 1989, when the Exxon Valdez tanker spewed 11 million gallons of oil onto the Alaskan coastline, the state was deep in the throes of. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Set To Profit From The BP Oil Spill? The Gulf Coast 'Spillionaires' (PHOTOS)] Reference
Bill Clinton was in the throes of one of his famous, exuberant agonies: should he approve the agreement negotiated by Jimmy Carter or not?. From Wordnik.com. [Empathy For The Devil] Reference
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