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tormenting

How to use tormenting in a sentence

He was crying as he told me about the torment in his mind, the nightmares he had at 7 or 8 years old.

Charles Duran, who was out of his element when he was not in mischief, seemed to take delight in tormenting these little children.

CHARLES DURANTHE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOS

I will not have you hunting and tormenting those kangaroo rats to-day.

This restless and tormenting passion for gold punishes them for aiming at other advantages by love than love itself.

But wishing to break the tormenting chain of ideas, the doctor went out into the kitchen.

Some of the supers jabbed me pretty hard, among them Babe Durgon, who delighted in tormenting me.

It has not only strewed the whole path of life with tormenting thorns, but enkindled "everlasting burnings."

Was there, then, another host of tormenting things still there; and if so, should she let them out to add to her misery and pain?

If you are bent on tormenting your spirit to find new misfortunes, choose whatever you like best.

With all this Grace had a suspicion that Biddy knew something more, that for Biddy the tormenting curtain had been lifted.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985