had tortured
- past perfect of torture.
Example Sentences
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His majestic left-handed swing had tortured pitchers in his home country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
"Police treated me very humanely. If they had tortured me then maybe seven generations after me would be fighting the Indonesian government," he says.
From BBC ● May 27, 2020
This was a conundrum that had tortured me, and which continues to haunt me.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2015
But I was afraid he was right: I had tortured him with my girlish wishy-washiness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013
By the time the evening work was over, the coffee had worked its miracle, and Ellen got up from her bed, white and weak, but released from the pain that had tortured her all day.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
