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• Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.From the entry break
• The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.From the entry use
• The Garden of Earthly Delights is full of earthly joys alongside grotesqueries, monstrosities, and torture.From the entry earthly
• It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.From the entry no
• Some saints are believed to have forgiven their martyrizers during fatal torture.From the entry martyrizer
• His agonous torture, at the hands of his captors, seemed to last for ages.From the entry agonous
• His hollow-eyed visage showed he'd been tortured with fear.From the entry hollow-eyed
• There is risk of being brutalized, arrested, imprisoned and tortured, all because I want you to know the truth about this matter.From the entry risk
• "When crisis pregnancy pregnancy centers talk to gestational people about choice, that's torture!"2022 July 14, Al Goodwyn, “Editorial Cartoon”, in North Side Sun. From the entry gestational
• Join the red room to watch torture, murder and gory content on a live stream.2022, Sunny Makadiya, Aurora, page 139. From the entry red room
• The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured.2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes. From the entry mislead
• One day he is kidnapped by the police, imprisoned in the red room, and tortured.2015, Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient, Movie Migrations. From the entry red room
• He described how Tenorinho was subjected to cruel tortures after proclaiming his innocence: he denied everything.2012, J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN…. From the entry parrilla
• Wiglaf, take the old man away.” To his dungeon-master Beowulf whispered, “Go easy on the torture.2009, Sean Munger, “The Fire-Drake”, in Beowulf is Boring, Portland, Ore.: Lulu Press, →ISBN, part III (The Dragon), page 150. From the entry dungeon-master
• Language was often tortured to disguise the racial nature of hazardous experimentation.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 59. From the entry tortured
• She tortures me for a while, knowing what I really want to know.2007 05, Angela Thompson, Where the Heck Is That Place Called Hope?, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry gory
• This was called “keelhauling.” Keelhauling was not some ancient nautical torture.2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry keelhauling
• They practised for these by playing games, such as 'keeping house', and 'kiss, cuddle or torture'.2005, John Beech, The Individual and Community Life, page 61. From the entry kiss, cuddle or torture
• Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.2003, David Langford, Up Through an Empty House of Stars, page 214. From the entry Banksian
• This was johar: the Rajputs were collectively burning their families rather than have them captured and tortured.2003, Paul K Davis, Besieged, page 112. From the entry johar
• This feeling of insecurity and isolation causes inbearable spiritual anguish, fear and torture.2001, Monika Gupta, The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: A Critical Study, page vii. From the entry inbearable
• They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes.2000, Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Women, Violence and War, →ISBN. From the entry take part
• At no stage on the level of torture do we discover what is the fundamental answer.2000, Michael Gelven, The Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 169. From the entry ratching
• The most offensive portrayal is John O'Meara's tortured Leontes: he milks every line with an unpregnant pause.1999 March 19, Lawrence Bommer, “The Winter's Tale”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unpregnant
• And we all know that torture is the most effective way to convert someone to your cause.1999, Paul Schuytema, Duncan McPherson, “Conversion”, in GameSpot Game Guide: Dungeon Keeper 2, GameSpot, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The Lands of…. From the entry dungeon mistress
• He is tortured while awake and asleep by a vision of the scene of assassination.1996, Hedda Friberg, An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O’Flaherty’s Novels, Uppsala University, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry Dostoevskean
• The growth of subsidies is a Chinese water torture on individual liberty.1994, James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry Chinese water torture
• The memory of harassments, threats and manhandlings, the fear brought by torture pricks painfully in his subconscious.1986, Justice & Peace Review, volumes 1-7, page 13. From the entry manhandling
• You think it’s torture for a man to ask his wife for attention?1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, page 131. From the entry googly
• How could the enemies of faith hatredly subject the Crucified to tortures?1977, Ḥasan Ḥanafī, Religious Dialogue & Revolution, page 101. From the entry hatredly
• Most of the time, it is mental torture, though physical abuse is not uncommon.1973 December 22, Satya, “It Is Not We Who Must Change”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 3. From the entry robot
• There is surely no more orgastic torture for children than the cries of another child being punished.1954, Cornell University, Epoch, volume 6, page 27. From the entry orgastic
• The hour's ritual had only demanded a duologue against the horrible noise of the torture.1953, Ian Fleming, “A Crag-like Face”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 128. From the entry duologue
• In a castle dungeon in Nuremberg, Germany is a huge, medieval "iron lady" torture device.1952, Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder, Hobbies - Volume 57, Issues 1-8, page 40. From the entry iron lady

Meaning of torture

1. noun The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
2. noun Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
3. noun Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.

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How do you use torture in a sentence?

Torture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “People confess to anything under torture.”

What is a short sentence with torture?

“cock and ball torture”

What does torture mean?

Torture means the infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.