tortured
Example Sentences
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Woodall turns in a star-making performance as this tortured, taciturn character who doesn’t talk much, though his tattoos say a lot.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Clearly Ms. Footer conceives of Bradley as something of a tortured Romantic; what’s unclear—in fact, what is unknowable—is whether Bradley did himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Few embody a tortured, beguiling Americana quite like her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Sauer also had to insist that unauthorized immigrants and temporary visitors owe allegiance to their home countries rather than the U.S., thus removing their children from his tortured definition of jurisdiction.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026
I follow the same tortured trajectory over and over—from my rush of disbelieving joy to my crashing deflation.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
