Example Sentences

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He’s an idiot, but one Vinod finds himself speaking to in a difficult moment with his other friends, and while his torturer is giving him a wedgie.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

After a fellowship in international studies at Johns Hopkins University, he partnered with photojournalist Nic Dunlop, who had tracked down a Khmer Rouge torturer, Kang Kek Iev, also known as Brother Duch.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

There was the time writer Leonard Dick and I bonded over our love of the show’s repentant Iraqi torturer, Sayid Jarrah, and Leonard excitedly declared himself the “vice president of Sayid Inc.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2019

“They essentially want you to bring a note from your torturer before they are willing to let you stay in the U.S,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice at Cornell University.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2019

When Richie was fourteen he’d grown from a tittering, cackling torturer of me to a handsome, slick high school kid who was an outstanding tenor sax player.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride