tormenting

Example Sentences

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Brontë was fascinated by silent crypts and tormenting passions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Fofana and Allan Saint-Maximin, on in place of Edouard and Said, continued the tormenting of PFC as they combined to add two goals in stoppage time.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Mary Dunbar had accused them of bewitching and tormenting her.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 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

I had thought Ucho was done tormenting me, but he came back with a surprising vengeance.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis