torment

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

“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

But the mother does not know what happened to him and describes the lack of answers as "mental torment".

From BBC

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

Meanwhile, Lucy’s life is upended when she is expelled from school; but years later, and not without making another questionable choice, she is finally free from his torment.

From Los Angeles Times