Sample Sentences for

torment

(editor-reviewed)

This was Franek's chance to torment my father and to thrash him savagely every day.  (source) Elie Wiesel, Night, 1960

A non-com, can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com, a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.  (source) Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894

"He liked to tease me and torment me," she recalls.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

For months she'd been tormented by the thought that Pedro had lied to her on his wedding day, that he'd told her he loved her just so she wouldn't suffer, or that as time went on, he really had grown to love Rosaura.  (source) Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, 1992

Up to this moment jealousy had not been one of his torments; now it suddenly gnawed at his heart.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, 1900

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) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

Aggie was a tormentor of a different sort.†  (source) Dave Pelzer, A Child Called It, 1995

Acting on the word's suggestion, he seized the bunch of knotted cords from its nail behind the door and shook it at his tormentors.†  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

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) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

EDMUND Tormentedly.†  (source) Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night, 1955

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) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

Her hat was the breast and wing of a red bird tormentingly pierced by two hatpins.†  (source) Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943