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How to use torment in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Torment means a catapult or other kind of war-engine. Example: “I've gone through living torment.”

Examples of torment by meaning

nounTorture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.

  • I've gone through living torment.

nounAny extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

  • He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce.

verbTo cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

  • The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
  • They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour.1913, Lewis Spence, chapter V, in The Myths of Mexico and Peru

More sentences with torment

  • The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld.From the entry netherworld
  • It captured the beauty of youth and the torments of “teenagership.”2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times. From the entry teenagership
  • Looking around, the other 'defrostees' seemed content to stay wrapped up in their own tormented world.2017, Is Anyone out There?, page Rick Kalm. From the entry defrostee
  • No Sir, not I, but Satan—who took possession of me and tormented me until I did it.2015, Margarethe von Eckenbrecher, Africa, page 114. From the entry take possession
  • The girls who had tormented me in high school had fallen, hard, from their pedestals.2014, Mary Castillo, Caridad Pineiro Scordato, Berta Platas, Friday Night Chicas: Sexy Stories from La Noche, page 216. From the entry goddess
  • Add Barcoo rot to the torment and it was little wonder some boys came down with fever.2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses, page 225. From the entry Barcoo rot
  • An amputee has a bizarre itch in his missing hand: unscratchable, it torments him.2007 May 29, Abigail Zuger, M.D., “The Brain: Malleable, Capable, Vulnerable”, in New York Times. From the entry unscratchable
  • Perhaps it was a tupilaq, all bone and gaping jaws, intent upon tormenting her even more.2000, Northern latitudes: prose poems, page 13. From the entry tupilaq
  • The speed, the cleaving wind, the flailing beams of light from traffic tormented me.1999, Rhona Petrie, Dead Loss, Chivers, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry cleaving
  • Its uncrossableness and the extreme opposition between rich and poor explain the future torment of the rich.1986, Luise Schottroff, Wolfgang Stegemann, translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, “‘The Poor Have Good News Preached to Them’: The Earliest…. From the entry uncrossableness
  • I lifted up the rocks and looked for beetles or mud-eyes to torment.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 202. From the entry mud-eye
  • A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power.1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune. From the entry blindness
  • For ten brutal minutes he was in torment, then the pain gradually eased.1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, Chapter , p. 185. From the entry sickly
  • If we part I shall be tormented by remorse at not having married.1950 June 18, Philip Larkin, “To J. B. Sutton – 18 June 1950”, in Anthony Thwaite, editor, Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985…. From the entry priceless
  • She said to him, "You taught them bird-dogs to rock in a rocking-chair just to torment me.1940, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, When the Whippoorwill, page 28. From the entry cut the fool
  • I can spend my Sundays better than in tormenting cats and quarrelling and fighting.”1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls. From the entry better
  • At a time when “heroin chic” ruled the runway, the press tormented the granddaughter of Roald Dahl about her curvier body.2023 November 18, Jess Cartner-Morley, Chloe Mac Donnell, “40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in…. From the entry runway
  • His witty songs, with their strong Latin flavor and Almodóvarian edge, evoked the narcissistic torments of a quartet of melodramatic Madrileñas.2017 November 1, Jesse Green, “Broadway’s Comic Chameleon Writes a Heartfelt New Tune”, in The New York Times. From the entry Almodóvarian
  • Maybe to avoid the torments and vulnerability of youth?2015 March, Mons Kallentoft, translated by Neil Smith, Spring Remains: A Thriller, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Emily Bestler…. From the entry leapfrog
  • I keep meaning to draw Noxi's tigersona tormenting Zack, lmfao.2014 August 23, @strongest_human, Twitter. From the entry tigersona
  • Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish.2013, Hildred Billings, Kataomoi. From the entry outsweat
  • Once the prey has been thoroughly stuck, the victorious dismalite gloatingly crawls out to further torment its helpless captive.2012, Richard Faulk, Gross America: Your Coast-to-Coast Guide to All Things Gross (ebook), Penguin Publishing Group, page 145. From the entry dismalite
  • Burrell, known for his knack for tormenting the Mets, is expected to inflict similar damage in the ultracompetitive American League East.2009 January 6, Ben Shpigel, “Pat Burrell Signs With Rays; Milton Bradley Expected to Join Cubs”, in New York Times. From the entry ultracompetitive
  • To torment, inflict pains, sorrows, rival and attack great destinies is your lot”, he croaked, paused and bellowed.”2008, Marcel D. Chukwubueze Ugwumadu, The Fiendish Triangle, Cel-Bez & Co. Publishers, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry villainly
  • What hypocrites will be confronted with, in return for their hypocrisy, is a grievesome torment, both in this world and beyond.2004, Harun Yahya, The Hypocrite According To The Qur’an. From the entry grievesome
  • This changefulness, though barely noticeable, had been a torment.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry changefulness
  • Whilst engrossed in monodextrous literature, have you endured page-turner's torment?2000, The league of extraordinary gentlemen. Vol. 1, page 160. From the entry monodextrous
  • There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all.1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey. From the entry owndom
  • Death flayeth and killeth the false one: The apostate suffereth for his falsehood and pride; he is tormented in both worlds.1963, M. Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, page 7. From the entry falsehood
  • I like to know a man be stanked on, for they'm miserable torments most o' their time .1906, Mrs. Havelock Ellis, My Cornish Neighbours, page 40. From the entry stank
  • That the structure of collection folding out of or into multimurder was not neutral but hellbent on extending torment beyond the grave, rests its case.2016, Laurence A. Rickels, The Psycho Records, page 103. From the entry multimurder
  • I included Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct, for instance, though both are arguably more about Michael Douglas than about the women who torment him.2015 June 8, Bob Mondello, “This Year, Women (And Girls) Rule The Big Screen”, in NPR, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022. From the entry womencentric
  • Gaiety and an overflowing, outpouring love, warmth and clarity, a lighthanded ease, replaced the tormented tension of the will which had marked the outgrown stage.2003, Ida Friederike Görres, The Hidden Face: A Study of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry light-handed
  • The end of our burdenful torment!2002, The Queen of Spades (Great Scenes), Hollywood, Calif.: Delos International, Inc., Act III, scene ii, page 21, column 2. From the entry burdenful
  • The organizers said they had found themselves "more involved in the web of social convulsions and violence that is tormenting our country.1990 February 4, Jennie McKnight, “Peruvian Politics Threaten Encuentro”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 2. From the entry sharpen
  • Otto's become an auto-antisemite, refuses to enter a tavern or a coffee house and walks around pale, tormented, and gloomy like a Jesuit priest.1987, Max Reinhardt Archive, State University of New York at Binghamton (publisher), Modern International Drama, volumes 21-23, page 68. From the entry auto-antisemite

Meaning of torment

  1. noun A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
  2. noun Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
  3. noun Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

Full definition of torment

Questions about torment in a sentence

How do you use torment in a sentence?
Torment is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I've gone through living torment.”
What is a short sentence with torment?
“I've gone through living torment.”
What does torment mean?
Torment means a catapult or other kind of war-engine.

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