put on the rack

Remarkably, until that moment, Starr had never met Monica Lewinsky, the woman he put on the rack in 1998 as he tried to extract evidence from her about her tryst with Bill Clinton.

“His name has been on it for the entire 23 months that these workers have been put on the rack by Carl Icahn. If my name was on the casino after 23 months of torturing the workforce, I would demand it be taken off the property.”

Mr. Pitt had decided that Cinderella must be put on the rack; that her limbs must be given a good wrenching; and that afterwards--so soon as she should know by experience what agony really is--she should be tucked up cosily and made comfortably bedridden for the rest of her natural existence.

One of the offenders was put on the rack and died under torture.

It hurt him deeply to see José put on the rack in this way.