has been torturing
- present perfect progressive of torture (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Nebraska has been torturing its fans with excruciating losses, but it might not be worse than what Miami has done lately.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Alston, who has been torturing Northern Virginia defenses all year, said this game became special when he realized how easily he could get to the outside and use his speed to race to pay dirt.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2017
Frank Ocean has been torturing the internet for weeks.
From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2015
Under the terrific atmospheric pressure that has been torturing the civilization of the entire world since the outbreak of the greatest of wars, contemporary literature of the major cast appears to have gone into decline.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
"It has been torturing my curiosity in the most painful manner these last ten minutes."
From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Lever, Charles James
