Example Sentences

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"You people have been tormenting me!" he shouted to his passengers.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m sitting on my horse blanket in the corner, brushing away the flies that have been tormenting me all morning, flitting from scab to scab.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

All these years I have been tormenting myself with doubts, as to whether I could be His child while so unable to say, Thy will be done.

From Stepping Heavenward by Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth)

And here I have been tormenting myself and calling you for an hour past!

From Doctor Pascal by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)

I have been tormenting my brain to discover whether it was her coloring or her form that impressed me most.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various