torment in a sentence
Example sentences for torment
The governor, in a rage, paused to devise some unheard-of torment for him.
Welch's narratives tend to be accounts of resignation, misfortune, or torment.
Over water, hurricanes torment ships and can disrupt commerce.
For example, spider monkeys loved to torment howlers.
Never physically confront, feed, torment or throw anything at bears.
They are cold, cartoonish attempts to escape the inner torment that her poetry described.
Several teens reportedly took their own lives rather than face ongoing torment from their persecutors.
By this last torment he obtained a crown equal to that of his brother.
No matter how violent his torment, he retains full artistic control of the tragedy which he is living through, but also writing.
There is fire and torment, and unspeakable practices, dwelled upon at length.
Kids no longer need muscles to bully and torment their peers.
There shall no wight serve other, but of harm and of torment.
Sure enough, those in sere training found that they would say anything to get the torment to stop.
Whence the poor soul suffers an incomprehensible agony and torment.
He then caused him to be taken off and laid upon the ground, strewed with red hot tiles, which put him to inexpressible torment.
Each knew she was unstable and vaguely understood that psychological torment somehow produced good poetry.
Instead, they recounted tales of high school torment as fresh as their faces.
But if you talk to these people, some of them will tell you that they live in torment.
As the youngest of three boys, there were equal amounts of idol worship for his brothers, and playful torment from them.
The biting flies and ants were to us a source of discomfort and at times of what could fairly be called torment.
The fluid that only a few days before had been their fortune was now their torment.
The members of their families also endured torment, the agony of prolonged separation or of having no word of their loved ones.
And the intelligence that would have made this state of things a torment had gone.
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