The horses are pulling the harrow.

Tom made a harrowing escape.

Among the many stories of World War Two, Nazi Germany's Siege of Leningrad — the Soviet city now known as Russia's Saint Petersburg — stands among the most harrowing.

The movie is a harrowing depiction of life in an urban slum.

After a harrowing interlude in Djibouti, where she says Oromo asylum-seekers were being rounded up and deported because of an agreement with the Ethiopian government, Ranna's smuggler booked her, her mother and her brother on a flight to Indonesia.

It was a harrowing experience.

It was the most harrowing experience of my life.

Carlos lost nearly 12 kg as the coronavirus ravaged his body for two weeks, at one point necessitating a harrowing ambulance trip to the hospital.