torture chamber
Example Sentences
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She said she remembered the first day of administering doses to children between the ages of 5 and 11 sounded like an “echo torture chamber with Disney music loudly infused amongst the clinic.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 31, 2022
She pursued a career in fashion, with its punishing rules about how to look, act and be — a veritable torture chamber for someone already saddled with plummeting self-esteem.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2022
Down on the mezzanine level of its giant warehouse building, OXO maintains a torture chamber for kitchenware, a workshop to fulfill the company’s need for incessant product testing.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022
"It’s been a little bit of a torture chamber," Bassitt said.
From Fox News • Sep. 23, 2021
His mother would rush and grab him and, with a foreign curse and a shaken fist at the frosted door, hurry him out of the torture chamber.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
