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

Meanwhile, Lucy’s life is upended when she is expelled from school; but years later, and not without making another questionable choice, she is finally free from his torment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

There was nothing tidy about the torment of the Chilean miners, though they did get themselves organized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 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

Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez