1
: feeling pain : hurt
2
: expressing or involving pain
a pained expression
with pained surprise
Examples of pained in a Sentence
She wore a pained expression on her face.
He truly looked pained when he heard the news.
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The most balanced model, similarly adept at detecting pained and not-pained goats, was trained on four fifths of the frames, fine-tuned using the remaining fifth and tested on videos of two additional goats.
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Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2025
In the hospital bed, his body is rigid, his voice is unaffected, and his glower is unblinking; in the CIA office days later, as he’s being applauded for his successes and his return to work, his smile looks pained.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Weinstein then dropped his head into his hands with a pained expression.
—Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
Afterward, ascending the stairs, Lynch smiled with pride and happiness, only to turn and catch his father’s pained expression.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
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Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2025
In the hospital bed, his body is rigid, his voice is unaffected, and his glower is unblinking; in the CIA office days later, as he’s being applauded for his successes and his return to work, his smile looks pained.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Weinstein then dropped his head into his hands with a pained expression.
—Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
Afterward, ascending the stairs, Lynch smiled with pride and happiness, only to turn and catch his father’s pained expression.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pained
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“Pained.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pained. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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