torment

As if Wendy’s hands, heart and day planner weren’t full enough, a panicky Jack determines to win her back, much to her torment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He said the families of those killed and injured will be experiencing "torment".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The following track, “Death Wish,” is about the torment of a new love gone bad, and it unfolds over plucked acoustic guitars and a distant bass drum that sounds like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

He is accompanied on his reluctant journey to the finish line with a group of characters who by turns torment and placate him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Phillip said, a torment of emotions flooding his face.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Pedro R. Díaz played the haunting English horn solos—in costume in the tunnel—embodying the lifelong mourning that torments Tristan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

After spending time in the divine abyss, we’re back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life’s most mundane torments: the hygienist’s chair.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

But like many of those who saved lives that day, she still torments herself.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

Backstory: The bitter rivalry between screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford helped propel this film about an aging onetime child star who torments her sister, a paraplegic former actor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

It brings on the flood of images that torments me, awake or asleep.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

The rearrangement allowed Shankly to recall Toshack, who had been left out of the initial match, and he and Keegan tormented the Germans in a 3-0 victory, Liverpool subsequently winning 3-2 on aggregate.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Tell me, Christopher Nolan, when did it first rosy-fingered dawn on you that your favorite type of protagonist — a tormented sinner-hero — was a specialty of the ancient Greeks?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

When the intrepid Gabriella encounters Zorro—not knowing who he is—and plants him a kiss on the mouth, Don Diego becomes tormented by a romantic rivalry with himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

And the officials who tormented Landor, he concluded, did not provide that consent, so the lawsuit has to fail.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

They were also tormented by diarrhea from the uncooked meat they had been forced to eat.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Gordon, however, did his chances no harm with a fine performance against Costa Rica, tormenting defender Shawn Johnson with electric changes of pace, making Declan Rice's opener and scoring England's second from the spot.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Fofana and Allan Saint-Maximin, on in place of Edouard and Said, continued the tormenting of PFC as they combined to add two goals in stoppage time.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

They forced Snell to labor through 29 pitches, tormenting him with an array of foul balls and refusing to go down easily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

“I know he is really good at that kind of stuff from playing against him and watching him do it and tormenting my team back in the day,” Stafford said, laughing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

Why didn’t I try to stop them from tormenting those crabs?

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall