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

She became a vegetarian, attacked the Chinese government for "torturing" bears, and spent hundreds of thousands on a programme to sterilise Romanian stray dogs.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Despite torturing Superman for decades, Lex Luthor won the presidency.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 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

They were Iorek’s bears now, and true bears, not uncertain semihumans conscious only of a torturing inferiority.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman