torment

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

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

She fights her inner torment as much as any exterior force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

What to do after writing some of this century’s most devastating songs about the torment of breaking up?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Still, Messinger, 85 years old, described the same torment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

I was just living with one, mine, and it was difficult, as the nightmares about what had happened continued to torment me.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

But it was Dante’s funnel-shaped map of a kingdom of torments, with its nine concentric rings, that popularized the notion of circles of Hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

Solange’s disgusting behavior as she torments her housemates is what the Eggers seem to be getting at.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

About a month after that, the financier, tormented by fears of further investigation, died of apoplexy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Omar Marmoush: Debutant was quickly parachuted into starting line-up, having tormented Newcastle so many times before with Manchester City.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

Throughout the book, Mr. Rasenberger never loses sight of the tormented double nature of the early American experiment—bondage in the land of the free—nor does he seek to sink one with the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

At dinner, an older boy named Vic Morgeroff had tormented Reynie for using the word “enjoyable” to describe the book he was reading.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

The pressure creeps up gradually, almost imperceptible day to day, tormenting inhabitants with uncertainty as they watch their city close down around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Owner Tara Zaman said they targeted the shop several times, "taking things" and "taunting" and "tormenting" her staff.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

“I love the people I work with. When you love something, it’s tormenting to lose it.”

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

"It is very tormenting as I have to look at... things I do not want to see," Fung told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025

I don’t recognize any of the people guarding me; Thibaut and Engel are all tucked up in their pensions, and von Linden is busy tormenting that screaming French girl.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein