How to Use pang in a Sentence

pang

noun
  • The friend felt a pang of preëmptive regret.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • So daily car commuters may love their rides, if with a pang of guilt.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 11 July 2019
  • This could mean more weight loss, less hunger pangs, and more energy.
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Even the most holiday-inclined have felt this pang at some point.
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • After Bianca’s text, a pang of guilt stabbed its way through my grief.
    — Rachel Mason, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • After all, even die-hard monogamists tend to feel pangs of desire for others.
    — Tara Struyk, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The ache of it drives us to seek out social connection just as hunger pangs urge us to eat.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2020
  • His poems knock the wind out of you, first with laughter, then with pangs of heartbreak.
    — Jacob Gedetsis, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
  • No need to risk missing your boarding call to satisfy your hunger pangs.
    — Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Those who encountered her for the first time could feel pangs of sympathy.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • But besides low white blood cell counts and some serious hunger pangs, they were all said to be in good health.
    — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
  • Rather than sharp pangs of guilt there is simply constant anxiety.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • But now our state’s food is really going to make the rest of the country feel a hunger pang.
    — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Help keep your hunger pangs at bay while on a road trip or at the office with this multi-pack of trail mixes.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 11 May 2026
  • Help keep your hunger pangs at bay while on a road trip or at the office with this multi-pack of trail mixes.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 11 May 2026
  • Many felt the pang of conscience; some may have assumed that slavery would expire on its own.
    — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • After all, who wants to feel the pangs of self-doubt, anxiety, or chronic stress?
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Sharp cracks of gunfire pierced the morning air, loud, jarring pangs that echoed off the concrete.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The veiled forms come forward and recede, as if pangs of pain, swelling to the surface only to fall back again.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • These pangs go away in about a day or two, just in time for the DOMS to peak.
    — Jack Izzo, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • But before putting pen to paper Wednesday, there were a few nervous pangs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But there’s nothing wrong with feeling a little pang of longing for what came before once in a while.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Ah, let’s brush away these pangs of insecurity.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The moment was sweet, but a pang of vulnerability rose in my chest.
    — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Packing your own treats not only saves money between meals, but also keeps mood-tanking hunger pangs at bay.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There are still pangs of grief for Big, but Parker handles them with tender humor.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • My heart pangs at the thought of Thanksgiving without nuoc cham roasted carrots.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 25 Mar. 2020
  • There’s my family, brave and resilient and hurting with the constant pang of distance.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The gift brought pangs of grief because his father had already died, which meant the money would be passed directly to him.
    — Caitlin Kelly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The experience inevitably leaves a pang due to all the other works that might have come from these women but never did.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2019

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