1.   During the agonizing days that the Ascension sixth-grader was missing, we all prayed desperately for her safe return.

2.   Dotel had to wait six agonizing days, but it was worthwhile.

3.   During an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Shaw often stopped to compose himself as he described the agonizing days after the accident.

4.   For the Muslim-led Bosnian government, it was another agonizing day.

5.   She was into her fourth agonizing day, without food or water, when the baby started to come.

6.   Twenty-seven agonizing days have passed, and no one can explain the loss.

7.   Eberharter and Franz went through two agonizing days of qualifying to get into the Olympics last winter and it took a toll.