After finishing their scanty meal they were conducted to their respective bedrooms, each with a japanned candlestick, through "a multitude of torturous windings.
The most frightful and torturous instruments ever conceived by man are those that were made to force people to "believe in" God.
It was as if he were at a sanuk packard (amusement park) and torturous suffering was mixed into the thrill of every ride.
These torturous feelings and thoughts were beyond loneliness.
Had they not become soul mates for the reason that each of them had possessed empathy for the other innocent being charred in the torturous hells of family?
Save her that she may save my soul from a torturous hell; save her that her sweet life might be a blessing to the great, big world beyond this mountain, which she so much longs to see.
The delicate French women still wearing their Parisian styles, and beautifully dressed children, young men and women, and a few servants constituted the multitude now slowly pulling out from Mobile for a long and torturous trip up the river.
The proceeding was torturous enough, but nothing dampened the ardency of these effervescent French, and every incident was turned into a fresh outburst of jollity, and seriousness was tossed to the winds.
Torturous and narrow they quickly petered out into animal trails or ended abruptly without cause.
The spectators, who shed tears at the torturous crucifixion, would listen with delight to the volume of reciprocal abuse voided by Satan and the Satanic, whose very names, at any other time or place, would have paralysed the intellect.
The thing was practicable; and, even in our own days, iambics and spondees, dactyls and tribrachs, charm a few classical ears by their torturous arrangement of words without rhythm and cadence.
Even now it was a torturous twilight in the cave, even now she smelled wood-smoke; even now she was like one starting at the noises of the night.
A sort of dreary thankfulness blossomed feebly in her heart that the torturous day was over.
Up again with a mighty torturous effort, the hulk mounted the platform a second time, and with head dangling at the end of a limp neck, crawled to the ragged cross, etched out with the blood of old Cap Lutts.
Instantly then were we admitted into her presence, and happy reunion took the place of torturous separation and maddening anxiety.
In the Plutonic, as in the volcanic rocks, there is every gradation from a torturous vein to the most regular form of a dike, such as intersect the tuffs and lavas of Vesuvius and Etna.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torturous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
