torment

Example Sentences

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“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”

From Literature

What if him trying to kiss me was just a way of trying to torment me?

From Literature

They moved on to the titular boxer in "Creed," tormented by his father's legacy, and the villainous Killmonger of "Black Panther," traumatized by being an orphan in a racist world.

From Barron's

"Aside from physical pain, the mental side is just as tormenting. I have never felt so low mentally, due to the constant pain and suffering," she says.

From BBC

Pedro R. Díaz played the haunting English horn solos—in costume in the tunnel—embodying the lifelong mourning that torments Tristan.

From The Wall Street Journal