torment

He said the families of those killed and injured will be experiencing "torment".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

She fights her inner torment as much as any exterior force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

What to do after writing some of this century’s most devastating songs about the torment of breaking up?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Still, Messinger, 85 years old, described the same torment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

It was a rare flash of good sense when he pleaded to be sent far away from the daily torment of her stoop-shouldered, darting-eyed presence.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The scene in which he torments his son by bouncing a basketball against his head was spoofed by Mike Myers' Dr Evil in the second Austin Powers film.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

So many torments get thrown at him he’s like a Job who needs a job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

After spending time in the divine abyss, we’re back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life’s most mundane torments: the hygienist’s chair.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

Backstory: The bitter rivalry between screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford helped propel this film about an aging onetime child star who torments her sister, a paraplegic former actor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

There are days when the questions are too hard and he torments us by dropping the apple peel into the wastebasket.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Noxious smoke and an influx of rats and flies attracted to rotting meat stored at the facility have tormented neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The rearrangement allowed Shankly to recall Toshack, who had been left out of the initial match, and he and Keegan tormented the Germans in a 3-0 victory, Liverpool subsequently winning 3-2 on aggregate.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Throughout the book, Mr. Rasenberger never loses sight of the tormented double nature of the early American experiment—bondage in the land of the free—nor does he seek to sink one with the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

And the officials who tormented Landor, he concluded, did not provide that consent, so the lawsuit has to fail.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

I am afraid of pain, of being tormented, even unto death, in giving birth.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The pressure creeps up gradually, almost imperceptible day to day, tormenting inhabitants with uncertainty as they watch their city close down around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Owner Tara Zaman said they targeted the shop several times, "taking things" and "taunting" and "tormenting" her staff.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Fofana and Allan Saint-Maximin, on in place of Edouard and Said, continued the tormenting of PFC as they combined to add two goals in stoppage time.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

Who could’ve guessed that a spin on “A Christmas Carol” that follows a woman with a bad haircut tormenting her neighbors might not be the most amiable take on this heartwarming story?

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor