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

It was raining, and when the train was in motion the smoke and cinders were torturing.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

Our feet were torturing us, but only a few men in the rear ranks ventured to stamp the ground a little.

From Combed Out by Voigt, Frederick Augustus

It was not one wild beast alone gnawing at my vitals; jealousy, envy, the sense of my own insignificance, and helpless hatred were torturing me.

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

It was as though unseen hands were torturing it at will.

From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Saltus, Edgar