torment

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Feb. 20, 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

That’s because Patriots-Seahawks is the one matchup designed specifically for the psychological torment of New York Jets fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The river, at times hauntingly beautiful and others murky and unknowable, offers a mirror to Daniel's torment, and to the increasingly fragile hope of his wife, Agnieszka, that Chris will one day come home.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

It grew, until almost it seemed to them that smell was the only clear sense left to them, and that was for their torment.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien