Sample Sentences for
torment
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    She concealed her torment.
    torment = great suffering
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    This was Franek's chance to torment my father and to thrash him savagely every day.  (source)
    torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
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    How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible.  (source)
    torment = great suffering
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    A non-com, can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com, a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad.  (source)
    torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
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    He spent the night awake, tormented by the pain of his sores.  (source)
    tormented = made to suffer
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    Up to this moment jealousy had not been one of his torments; now it suddenly gnawed at his heart.  (source)
    torments = something causing great mental suffering
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    If we don't want him tormenting us with algebra or Irish grammar all we have to do is ask him a question about America and that gets him so excited he might go on for the whole day.  (source)
    tormenting = making us suffer
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    Aggie was a tormentor of a different sort.†  (source)
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    As the boys spread out in anticipation, I saw Arthur H.—one of his biggest tormentors—a few yards behind Tommy's back, begin mimicking him, doing a daft version of the way Tommy was standing over the ball, hands on hips.†  (source)
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    Sir, said the philosopher, the dragon that thou dreamedst of betokeneth thine own person that sailest here, and the colours of his wings be thy realms that thou hast won, and his tail which is all to-tattered signifieth the noble knights of the Round Table; and the boar that the dragon slew coming from the clouds betokeneth some tyrant that tormenteth the people, or else thou art like to fight with some giant thyself, being horrible and abominable, whose peer ye saw never in your days, wherefore of this dreadful dream doubt thee nothing, but as a conqueror come forth thyself.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She tormenteth" in older English, today we say "She torments."
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    EDMUND Tormentedly.†  (source)
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    Busy with the ache of their own growing pains, his brothers and sisters had little time for him: he was almost six years younger than Luke, the youngest of them, but they exerted over him the occasional small cruelties, petty tormentings by elder children of a younger, interested and excited by the brief screaming insanity of his temper when, goaded and taunted from some deep dream, he would seize a carving knife and pursue them, or batter his head against the walls.†  (source)
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    Her hat was the breast and wing of a red bird tormentingly pierced by two hatpins.†  (source)
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