torture
Example Sentences
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For Maisie Adam, taking part - and crucially trying not to crack - in Last One Laughing was "absolute torture".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
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 • Mar. 16, 2026
I’m hearing what feels like your peak frustration with the “John Yoo special”: As long as it’s not organ failure, it’s not torture.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
And they’ve done it by unearthing another MVP-caliber quarterback in Drake Maye, who has the potential to torture yet another generation of Jets teams.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
If you ever want to torture me, just force-feed me cilantro.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
