She felt at once that this interview was a terrible ordeal to him.

A great many years ago, when my wife was only a young girl, she passed through a terrible ordeal.

"You have an 18-year-old young person who had gone through this terrible ordeal," he said.

I realize it's a terrible ordeal to ask you to go through.

It is either a golden opportunity or a terrible ordeal.

I don't want to see this young man put to the terrible ordeal of a trial.

The two men do their best to help the girl overcome her terrible ordeal.

Even for him the crossing had been a terrible ordeal.

Do not come at all unless you are prepared for a terrible ordeal.

It was a terrible ordeal from the first to last.