torment
Example Sentences
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The ordeal eventually led Ms. Müller to emigrate to West Berlin in 1987, a bureaucratic torment that she describes here in deliberately tedious detail, to mirror the experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026
But the mother does not know what happened to him and describes the lack of answers as "mental torment".
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
The general thrust of the changes were to de-melodramatize Salieri’s action and to focus more attention on his guilt and metaphysical torment.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
The golden monkey was restless, and frustrated: the bats had left the cave with the coming of darkness, and there was nothing to torment.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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