torture
Example Sentences
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Until Sunday morning, Johnson’s history in Cortina had been more tortured.
Whereas Batman had his tragic back story, making him moody and tortured, and Spider-Man had the youthful verve of a kid from Queens, Superman was always kind of a square.
Giving examples of his office's work, Turk said it supported 67,000 survivors of torture and modern slavery, documented tens of thousands of human rights violations and exposed discrimination in more than 100 countries.
From Barron's
One of the mansion’s signature characters is, aptly, a tortured bride.
From Los Angeles Times
Julio was sitting in the PT room, in a chair amid all the torture equipment, grimacing into the phone like he was the one being tortured.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
