How to Use "painful" with Example Sentences

1. Efforts to curb inflation in china are having some painful side-effects .

2. But even measured against japan 's painful history , its plight today is miserable .

3. The volunteers can stop the heat the moment it becomes painful .

4. But americans will not be told how painful things must become .

5. By then , he will have made plenty of gestures , such as taxing business and the rich , that afford him cover for broader and more painful measures .