Example Sentences
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Open is often regarded as the most challenging of the four majors, and there isn’t a host that tortures the world’s best players quite like Shinnecock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Yet, Paltrow makes it look like easy lifting, as if dodging the universe’s cerebral tortures were as low-effort as the #BoyfriendBreakfasts she’s taken to posting on Instagram.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
I left them, so that’s what tortures me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Notable are any Sally moments, especially when sewing her appendages back on, and the neon-greenish nightmare of Oogie Boogie as he tortures Santa Claus.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Marie-Laure tortures herself with daydreams of feasts laid out on long tables: platters of sliced pork loin, roasted apples, banana flambe, pineapples with whipped cream.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
