torture

Example Sentences

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After the crackdown in January, Sheikhi fled to the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq, fearing arrest and torture back home, where the moustached, bespectacled man had been no stranger to anti-government protests.

From Barron's

It’s also better than the 78th Academy Awards’ best picture winner “Crash” — a tortured go at race relations that’s still viewed as one of Oscar’s greatest blunders.

From Salon

Israel's government has rejected accusations of widespread ill-treatment and torture of detainees, and insisted that it is fully committed to international legal standards.

From BBC

"I didn't feel an immediate physical threat. No one was knocking on my door, I wasn't jailed or tortured."

From Barron's

I didn’t have long to keep torturing myself with questions.

From Literature