torment

Example Sentences

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After the torment of defeat in week one, Scotland are top of the table.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 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

Colombian writer-director Simón Mesa Soto’s acutely observed Cannes-recognized “A Poet” lays bare that torment with the tale of a has-been writer for whom exquisite suffering has curdled into garden-variety middle-age failure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

That’s because Patriots-Seahawks is the one matchup designed specifically for the psychological torment of New York Jets fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Twisted ripples of the creature’s torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick