tormenting

Example Sentences

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A tormenting 16-3 defeat to the New England Patriots in the AFC wild-card round sent the Chargers’ season to an early finish Sunday for the second consecutive season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

“I love the people I work with. When you love something, it’s tormenting to lose it.”

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

"It is very tormenting as I have to look at... things I do not want to see," Fung told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

They forced Snell to labor through 29 pitches, tormenting him with an array of foul balls and refusing to go down easily.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

“You were always the bad one. Making faces at me behind your mother’s back, teasing and tormenting me, stealing my things. Why, you have my bear right now. Give him to me!”

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn