Example Sentences

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The rolling green grassy hills and blue sky of our Windows XP background greeted me, and I’d feel feverish waiting as the AOL dial-up internet made its torturously slow connection.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2025

On Thursday, NASA’s new giant rocket, the Space Launch System, emerged out into the Florida air, embarking on a torturously slow 11-hour journey to its primary launchpad at Kennedy Space Center.

From The Verge • Mar. 18, 2022

In the film, debuting Aug. 20 on HBO Max and in theaters, Hugh Jackman plays a private investigator who taps into clients’ memories but becomes torturously fixated on his own.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Not long after this, it all goes terribly, torturously wrong.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2018

It took a torturously long time to circle the cabin.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker