torture

Example Sentences

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Waiting for Boat Boy to ask me out has been torture.

From Literature

For Maisie Adam, taking part - and crucially trying not to crack - in Last One Laughing was "absolute torture".

From BBC

The partner of a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury in the Nottingham attacks has said the organisations involved in a public inquiry have "tortured" the victims' families "over and over again".

From BBC

So much of contemporary literature reads like a tortured attempt to negotiate between the irreconcilable positions of righteous expression and guilty silence.

From The Wall Street Journal

I thought I could see a tortured look in his eyes, a weighing of whether or not he should say something to me.

From Literature