torment

Example Sentences

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Such is the nature of their American torment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

After the torment of defeat in week one, Scotland are top of the table.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

The general thrust of the changes were to de-melodramatize Salieri’s action and to focus more attention on his guilt and metaphysical torment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Twisted ripples of the creature’s torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick