were torturing
- past progressive of torture.
Example Sentences
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Once, after a breakfast at McDonald’s, she said the voices in her head were torturing her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Northrup, hurrying on, believed there was no better way to drive off the blue devils that were torturing him than to pass the evening with Twombley.
From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
Scholars could not decipher Greek texts while they were torturing biblical ones into arguments for and against the opinions of the Chancellor.
From Oxford by Lang, Andrew
Drawing it towards him he deliberately immersed himself in its pages to the exclusion of the thoughts which were torturing him.
From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret
I've had hard work holding in all this time while you were torturing your mind and twisting the honest English language out of shape and meaning.
From The Barrier by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
