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Example sentences for "tortured"

Lexicographically close words:
tortoiseshell; torts; tortuous; tortuously; torture; torturer; torturers; tortures; torturing; torturous
  1. For bread they got black grout, that tortured the stomach.

  2. These poor wretches firmly believed that the Federals were thieves or Prussians, and that they tortured their prisoners.

  3. I will not have him tortured in my room, or anywhere!

  4. They waited there in the dimly lighted room for what seemed tike an age again; she, pale and tortured by weird imaginings; he, grim and bolt-upright like a statue of a warrior.

  5. The colonel sat back, and smothered an exclamation of agony as the nerves in his injured arm tortured him afresh.

  6. Then his tortured heart seemed to shrink, and, pressing his hand on his brow, he paused some time ere he answered gloomily: "It is for them that I go.

  7. Even the prophet of the Lord whom the Wicked Man had tortured had a smile on his face.

  8. He was in darkness now, for the clouds had swept together and blotted out his momentary glimpse of the moon, and the air was full of fitful struggling tortured wraiths of hail.

  9. And because he would not bow to me, I tortured him for four days and nights, and in the end he died.

  10. Ignoring my tortured flesh, she shed the rays, undeviating, incorruptible, of the divine love, which satisfies the soul only.

  11. Yes, the fears with which my soul was tortured yesterday are incomparably greater than all sorrows that the future can bring upon me, just as the joys which thou hast given me, dear eternal thought of my life!

  12. I stood hot and panting, with the inside of my fingers tortured into burning leather, the skin rubbed off three knuckles, and a bruise on the back of my right hand, where the trunk had crushed it against a sharp edge of the doorway.

  13. I believe you 've kept her in this house like a bird in a cage, to torture her as you 've tortured me.

  14. Every word tortured him, filled him with fury against her for the folly of such a sacrifice, with fury also against the fate that forbade him to plead his own cause and to open her eyes to her husband's motives.

  15. When Leigh had lighted them downstairs, he ascended once more to his cabin, tortured by an acute self-consciousness.

  16. His shoes had been torn off and cast aside, his bruised feet tortured him at every stride, and every ounce of power had been cruelly taxed in the effort to close up the gap caused by the accident.

  17. With a feeling of exquisite comfort and ease, he floated on his back, drawing in great breaths of the glorious air into his tortured lungs.

  18. But to his tortured fancy it seemed as though he were being dragged backward.

  19. The time might arrive when Callista would be forced to know that--or perhaps almost know it, and be tortured by a series of meaningless reprieves.

  20. For Mann, to read them had been like blundering into a private room where lovers clung together with locked loins and tortured faces; like being compelled to watch, afterward, when the woman was alone and wounded with loss.

  21. For he who so lives as to be doomed to eternal death is tortured by a death in life.

  22. The bravery, the risk, the ghastly chances of a less fortunate ending, sent shiver after shiver through his already tortured senses.

  23. Along the tortured hollow of his back a red-hot plaster fumed and mulled and sucked at the pain like a hideously poisoned fang trying to gnaw-gnaw-gnaw its way in.

  24. Abruptly she brought both hands down upon the keys, educing a jangled, startled crash from the tortured wires, and swinging round, glanced up at Amber with quaint mirth trembling behind the veil of moisture in her misty eyes.

  25. She held out her hand to be tortured afresh, and suffered the grip of the vice with a steady smile.

  26. He was tortured to death for being accused of designing to poison the Queen.

  27. Did I but tell thee half, thy tortured brain "Would burn like mine, and mine go wild again!

  28. You the plainings, faint and low, From Misery's tortured soul that flow, 40 Shall usher to your fate.

  29. We paused amid the pines that stood, The giants of the waste, Tortured by storms to shapes as rude 55 With stems like serpents interlaced.

  30. In a morality produced late in the fifteenth century, called Les Blasphémateurs, the actors tortured and wounded the figure on a crucifix.

  31. Another said that he would confess anything if he was tortured further, although he was ready to suffer any death for the Order of Templars.

  32. The accused gave his slaves to be tortured "to challenge evidence against himself.

  33. One of the templars said that if he was tortured further he would confess that he had murdered the Saviour.

  34. In 579 King Chilperic caused ecclesiastics to be tortured for disloyal behavior.

  35. They were thrown from the cliffs, or into a hole in the ground, or tortured and hung up in the clear air, or the spine was broken.

  36. Three years later another child of the queen died, and several women were tortured and burned or broken on the wheel for causing the death by sorcery.

  37. They tortured him as a maker of trouble by disseminating false news, until the story was confirmed.

  38. He was tortured twice, and condemned to imprisonment in chains on bread and water.

  39. On the death of a great man his debtor slaves are bound to the carved village post, which indicates the glory of head-hunting, and are tortured to death.

  40. Great numbers were deprived of their ears and noses, tortured through several days, and at last burned alive or broken slowly on the wheel.

  41. They were liable to be tortured in their owners' cases in court.

  42. He was tortured and the desired proof was obtained.

  43. How are the boasted Labours of an Age Defac'd and tortured by Ungracious Action?

  44. This Word our great Master hath tortured and wrested to signify a Tyro or Novice, being directly contrary to the Sense in which it hath been hitherto used.

  45. Some of the preachers of freedom were burned at the stake, others were tortured to death in dungeons, and others again were put to the sword.

  46. It began to dawn upon Patrine, still possessed by that strange hallucination of the Blood that dripped heavily from the tortured Body on the great black Cross behind her, how it might be that evil wilfully committed, opened its Wounds afresh.

  47. He smiled, because of a queer tickling pleasure he felt as he did this, akin to the sensation experienced when his taunts had tortured Patrine.

  48. Ah, did he know how horribly he tortured her!

  49. The red-gold sheen of the boyish head, the gay blue challenge of the laughing eyes, the coaxing tones of the treble voice had tortured the senses they deceived.

  50. By and by, when the silence in the house should clamour in the tortured ears of the woman and the man.

  51. And today civilization--education--Christianity exist where seventy-five years ago the chance visitor was tortured first and eaten afterward.

  52. Should I not slink about like some poor criminal in her last hours, everlastingly tortured by the fear of betraying myself to him, and yet filled with the desire to proclaim my guilt to the whole world?

  53. I confessed all to you, and sought comfort with you when tortured by self-reproach at the thought that I was breaking my troth to my wife already in the year of mourning.

  54. At nights I lay awake at his side, and tortured myself with the thought: why are you so dull and so depressing, and why can you do nothing but cling to him weeping, and suffer doubly when you see him suffering?

  55. In her eyes he read again that hint of a tortured woman soul which he had glimpsed before.

  56. His nonsense had won her to a smile; and the eyes which a few moments before had looked like those of a tortured woman were once again the eyes of a child.

  57. He had been tortured with terrible neuralgic headaches all through the winter; but though the doctor urged him to try the effect of a sojourn abroad, nothing would induce him to leave Greenriver.

  58. Once on the pony she sent the little animal rapidly away, toward the Two Bar--away from Lawler and from that happiness for which she had hoped despite the hideous knowledge which for months had tortured her.

  59. But the woman made no sound that would have betrayed the emotions that tortured her.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tortured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; afflicted; agonized; agonizing; biased; clawed; crucified; distressed; garbled; harrowed; hurt; hurting; imbued; impressed; lacerated; martyred; misquoted; moved; obsessed; pained; perverted; racked; slanted; strained; stricken; suffering; tormented; torn; tortured; touched; twisted; woeful; wounded; wrung