torturing

Example Sentences

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Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

India's batters are torturing England in this series.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

While the professionals scratch their heads, we can see that his acting out is only a reaction to whatever thing or condition or cosmological prank is torturing him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

“Asking yourself afterward what you did wrong or could have done better is torturing yourself for nothing.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2023

It’s a relief when one of the ten or so men on the stage orders us to stand and start singing, because the folding chair is torturing my overworked back.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich