TORTURE in a Sentence
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129 example sentences for TORTURE, such as:
1. His confessions were made under torture.
2. He died after five days of excruciating torture.
3. The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
4. The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
5. They shall no longer worry others, nor torture myself.
2. He died after five days of excruciating torture.
3. The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
4. The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
5. They shall no longer worry others, nor torture myself.
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Meanings and Examples of TORTURE
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torture
n. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
n. the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
2 During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
3 The idea of this visit was torture to me, yet I could not refuse.
4 I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
5 I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
6 I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.
7 Then, gasping for breath, did Hester Prynne clutch the fatal token, instinctively endeavouring to tear it away, so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand.
8 They shall no longer worry others, nor torture myself.
9 In Mrs. Brandley's house and out of Mrs. Brandley's house, I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me.
10 My boots might be placed in any collection of instruments of torture.
11 Would you believe it, I was teaching Grisha just now: once this was a joy to me, now it is a torture.
12 Levin loved his brother, but being with him was always a torture.
13 There was nothing cheerful and joyous in the feeling; on the contrary, it was a new torture of apprehension.
14 For a swift instant there went through her memory again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture and murder.
15 She had listened with calm contempt while these women had underrated the Confederate Army, blackguarded Jeff Davis and accused Southerners of murder and torture of their slaves.
Example Sentence:
1 I believed that in civilized countries, torture had ended long ago.
2 He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her.
3 His confessions were made under torture.
4 He died after five days of excruciating torture.
5 The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
6 Reports of torture and mass executions in Serbia's detention camps have outraged the world's religious leaders.
7 They began to feel a vague fear, and then the real torture came.
8 The Spanish Inquisition devised many demoniac means of torture.
9 One of the major themes of this year's festival is Africa's tortured relationship with the west, with several films making a strong case that Africa continues to be exploited.
10 These words cut me: yet what could I do or I say? I ought probably to have done or said nothing; but I was so tortured by a sense of remorse at thus hurting his feelings, I could not control the wish to drop balm where I had wounded.
11 The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
12 Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.