torture
Example Sentences
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"They have not been tortured. They have not suffered any inhumane treatment since they were captured."
From BBC
When I have a lot to do, time shrinks, but when I want something over with, it stretches and yawns, and laughs at my torture.
From Literature
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And Kate Bush’s immortal 1978 single, with its swooping, operatic drama, interpretive dance–filled video and ghostly narrator only strengthened the book’s rep as a tale of exquisitely tortured love.
From Salon
It is the incandescent poems of his tortured and unsettled youth that still dazzle.
“But then the story gets tortured and too many people have a say.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.