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Example sentences for "torment"

Lexicographically close words:
torians; torii; torium; torius; tork; tormenta; tormente; tormented; tormentes; tormenteth
  1. He was inclined to torment the boys by tying knots in their clothes when they went swimming, or by throwing mud at them when they wanted to come out, and they had no deep love for him.

  2. For where ungodly people do dwell together, they being a snare and stumbling-block one to another by their practices, they must needs be a torment one to another, and an aggravation of each other's damnation.

  3. Thus shall the souls that abide in their sins cry out in the bitterness of their spirits, with wonderful anguish and torment of conscience, without intermission; 'That he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.

  4. Indeed, the reason why the poor world does not so earnestly desire for mercy, is partly because they do not so seriously consider the torment that they must certainly fall into if they die out of Christ.

  5. O this one word EVER, how will it torment thy soul!

  6. Together with these standeth by the companions of death, death and hell, death and evils, death and endless torment in the everlasting flames of devouring fire.

  7. Out at these brazen bars they may The saints in glory see; But this will not their grief allay, But to them torment be.

  8. O that he might be kept out hence, lest my torment be aggravated by his coming hither!

  9. I have given her the occasion How to torment me: she will tell me hers.

  10. The corporal had manifested his conception of humour by refusing him beer and water on the march; was he going to torment him by starvation as well as by thirst?

  11. To Zalu Zako, although the prospect of unlimited white men swooping upon them was terrifying, his semi-conscious mind was rather occupied with Bakuma than with affairs of state which seemed merely to exist to torment lovers.

  12. But the evening was not destined to pass over without farther torment from young Staunton.

  13. Oh, old Satan in torment couldn't be no meaner than what he and Old Polly was to they slaves.

  14. But that old Polly was mean like her husban', old Cleveland, till she die, and I hopes they is burnin' in torment now.

  15. O what a misery What a most studied torment 'tis to me now To be an honest man!

  16. But you know, Madam, Women never can Be too fair to torment an amorous man; And this mans torments I would heighten still, Till at their highest he be fit to kill.

  17. Reading with the eye of common understanding, Jesus taught that the rich merited eternal torment by reason of their riches, and the poor merited eternal life by reason of their poverty, a belief that one might hear declared even to-day.

  18. That the Babe of Bethlehem was begotten by his Father to be a sacrifice to its Father--that its blood might atone for the sin of his first pair--and so save from eternal torment the offspring of that pair.

  19. Centre your aspirations upon Him, for He is the rock of our salvation, if we believe, or the rock of our wrecking to endless torment if we disbelieve.

  20. I order you to go and never to come back; if you torment and threaten this child, I'll thrash you, yes man, thrash you till I cannot stand over you!

  21. The scepticism which perhaps sometimes leads me right in matters of speculation is torment to me when I would attempt to direct the infant mind.

  22. I can find no words to tell you of the unspeakable horror with which I saw, in my older days, that a thought could so torment me; the mere fact of its being able to torment I could never forget.

  23. Here, again was the torment of this matrimonial bond to a man who wished to be an artist.

  24. Thyrsis would be absorbed in some especially important mental operation, and it would be a torment to him to have such things forced upon his attention.

  25. They were a torment to him, they deprived him of all rest and sleep.

  26. It seems to me I have experienced every torment of each successive stage of Dante's Inferno.

  27. Flashes of memory would come to him, waves of torment roll over him.

  28. He had seen a little of this power of the newspapers to defile and torment a man; but he had never dreamed of anything as bad as this.

  29. Sometimes Corydon would be obsessed with the sense of the sheer weight she carried; a burden fastened upon her and not to be got rid of--an imposition and torment to her.

  30. He even overcame the fear and torment of hell, which did its utmost to cloud his reason.

  31. Luther took him outside the door and showed him the threatening text, and Bugenhagen, apparently upset by his friend's excitement, began to doubt too, without suspecting the depth of the torment which Luther was enduring.

  32. Oh, Laurence, be generous and spare me the torment of questions.

  33. Time had gone but little distance, When the trout became affrighted, Fear befel the whiting-eater; Burning pain and writhing torment Seized the eater of the Fire-fish.

  34. My dear abbe, if love is a torment for you I am very sorry, but would it be possible for you to live without love?

  35. Throughout the summer, I carried on a course of Platonic love with my charming Angela at the house of her teacher of embroidery, but her extreme reserve excited me, and my love had almost become a torment to myself.

  36. Therefore all tyrants have been punished by having a woman oppress and torment them.

  37. When bad men misemploy their psychic forces on weaker minds, dazzle them, or torment them from a distance, and so on.

  38. Why should we torment ourselves in the only life we have?

  39. You torment Mont Saint Jean from want of employment, not from cruelty.

  40. Yes, but promise that you will let me torment the Schoolmaster.

  41. If we choose to torment Mont Saint Jean, what has she got to say about it?

  42. What demon prompts you to come hither to torment me?

  43. There, unseen by the eye of any, he gave way to the grief and torment of his breast.

  44. Come not to torment my heart, already almost broken.

  45. Of course you don't mean anything, except to torment Whit.

  46. I began to feel sure that the man was in a mingled torment of joy and pain, that he fought the maddening desire to yell because he knew he had not the strength to stand it.

  47. Her knowledge of human nature probably went so far as to teach her that she could thus most torment her daughter.

  48. It was not that she wished to torment her in a revengeful spirit.

  49. And when at last the thing has been done, and the torment endured, the sounds heard have not always been good of their kind, for the money has not sufficed to purchase the aid of a crowd of the best musicians.

  50. Would all the agony of his whole existence equal one hour of the torment he has bequeathed to me, its shame and ignominy?

  51. He made himself a torment to himself and to every one else.

  52. Her mother was suffering an agony of torment in the kitchen.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; afflict; affliction; aggravate; agonize; agony; anguish; annoy; badger; bait; bear; beset; bewitch; bite; blight; bloody; bother; bristle; bug; bugbear; bully; burden; burn; calamity; chafe; claw; concern; confinement; convulse; corrupt; crucifixion; crucify; crush; curse; cut; damage; defile; deprave; desolate; desolation; despoil; destroy; devil; disadvantage; discompose; disease; distress; disturb; dog; doom; embitter; envenom; evil; exasperate; exercise; fester; fret; fretting; gall; gantlet; gauntlet; get; gnaw; grate; grief; grievance; grieve; grind; gripe; harass; harassment; harm; harrow; haunt; heartbreak; heckle; hell; holocaust; horror; hound; hunt; hurt; impair; impale; imprisonment; incarceration; inconvenience; infect; inflame; infliction; injure; inundate; irritate; jailing; jinx; kill; lacerate; laceration; macerate; madden; maltreat; martyr; martyrdom; menace; mistreat; molest; nag; needle; nettle; nightmare; nip; obsess; oppress; oppression; outrage; overwhelm; pain; passion; perplex; persecute; persecution; perturb; pest; pester; pestilence; pick; picketing; pierce; pinch; pique; plague; poison; pollute; pother; prejudice; prick; prostrate; provoke; punish; purgatory; pursue; push; puzzle; rack; rankle; rasp; rend; ride; rile; rub; ruffle; sadist; savage; scarify; scathe; scourge; smite; sorrow; stab; sting; strike; suffering; taint; take; tantalize; taunt; tease; teaser; thorn; threaten; torment; tormentor; torture; trouble; try; tweak; twist; vex; vexation; violate; visitation; woe; worry; worrying; wound; wring; wrong