noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pang of nostalgia (= a short feeling of nostalgia )
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She felt a pang of nostalgia for the time when they were all children.
a pang/stab/twinge of jealousy (= a sudden feeling of jealousy )
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Polly felt a sharp pang of jealousy when she saw Paul with Suzanne.
a pang/twinge/stab of guilt
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Richard felt a pang of guilt, knowing that he had forgotten her birthday.
a pang/twinge/stab of regret literary (= a sudden short feeling of regret )
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Kate watched her go with a pang of regret.
hunger pangs (= sudden feelings of being hungry )
twinge/pang of envy
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I felt a twinge of envy when I saw them together.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sharp
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Lindsey experienced a sharp pang of guilt.
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After so long eating recycled meals on Belial, her salivary glands sprang into life with sharp little pangs of anticipation.
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This tears her and causes her a sharp pang of pain, making her cry out.
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She turned on him a glance of tearful gratitude that caused Karelius an unexpectedly sharp pang of jealousy.
sudden
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She felt a sudden terrible pang .
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He experienced a sudden pang of regret he'd rejected her offer.
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But then he wasn't likely to believe anything good about her, she realised with a sudden profound pang of sorrow.
■ NOUN
hunger
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She was cold and unwashed and hunger pangs were beginning to gnaw again.
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All those cups of tea do add up and the fridge is always there ready to beckon when a hunger pang lingers.
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The Harpy is magically kept alive, but suffers agonizing hunger pangs and is in constant pain.
■ VERB
feel
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Ironically she felt a tiny pang of regret for the long Viking locks, though she couldn't have said why.
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She blew him little kisses, and he felt love and pangs of something that frightened him.
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Melissa felt a pang of remorse.
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He sounded as if he was thoroughly disgusted by the whole business and she felt a pang of dismay.
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I felt a pang of hunger and the mood of evening.
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It was his first sight of his grandson and he felt a pang of anxiety as he looked down at him.
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Sometimes I felt little pangs of guilt, but my manager quickly talked me out of that.
suffer
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Men too suffer the pangs of guilt - although they have not yet become as expert as women.
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When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs .
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The Harpy is magically kept alive, but suffers agonizing hunger pangs and is in constant pain.
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During her two-year absence Eliza suffered great pangs of homesickness and longing for her children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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hunger pangs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All those cups of tea do add up and the fridge is always there ready to beckon when a hunger pang lingers.
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But I grabbed something to stay the pangs of hunger on the way down.
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Melissa felt a pang of remorse.
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Ordinarily we could marvel and celebrate without any deeper pang of fear.
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She felt a sudden terrible pang .
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The first showed the pangs of passion replaced by musical harmony.