torment

Example Sentences

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Such is the nature of their American torment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 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

Tartakovsky conveys all of Spear’s torment, loneliness and the magnitude of his love with zero dialogue, only a wide-eyed stare into the distance as he lumbers along, pulled by the memory of an unfinished life.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

They’d been a torment to her all day.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck