tormenting

Example Sentences

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"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

They forced Snell to labor through 29 pitches, tormenting him with an array of foul balls and refusing to go down easily.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

“I know he is really good at that kind of stuff from playing against him and watching him do it and tormenting my team back in the day,” Stafford said, laughing.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

He predicts that in America, authoritarianism would “degrade men without tormenting them. ... The will of man is not shattered but softly softened, bent, and guided.”

From Salon • May 17, 2025

If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor