torment

Example Sentences

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This leads, Mr. Hazzard writes, to “the constant gushing of fluids, all of them, into a diaper. It’s death by humiliation, by torment.”

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I saw at once it was the same German shepherd that had been tormenting Marlene through the gate.

From Literature

“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”

From Literature

What if him trying to kiss me was just a way of trying to torment me?

From Literature

They moved on to the titular boxer in "Creed," tormented by his father's legacy, and the villainous Killmonger of "Black Panther," traumatized by being an orphan in a racist world.

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