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
But there is nothing better about this “Cat Person,” which coarsens, flattens and torturously over-elaborates a story whose elegant concision was precisely what made it such rich and elastic interpretive fodder.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2023
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
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
