How to Use torment in a Sentence

torment

1 of 2 noun
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  • The mosquitoes were a constant torment.
  • After years of torment, she left her husband.
  • No one could understand his inner torment.
  • But there was a trail of tragedy and torment along the way.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2022
  • In my hands, the bag of sin morphed into a bag of torment.
    — Sally Schwartz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The show can bring so much greatness to your life, but the fans can bring so much hate and torment.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 July 2021
  • Even the music becomes a kind of torment when it’s stretched out to eight hours.
    — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • But what Thomas does bring is a sense of inner torment.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • This World Cup, what should have been one of the highlights of their careers, has been a torment for them.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But for too many women, that’s when a new kind of torment begins.
    — Ginny Graves, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
  • In both obvious and subtle ways, the culture of the 2000s was primed for the torment of someone like Spears.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Could a three-day workweek be the answer to the U.K.’s energy torment?
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But having the copyright to the clip would not end his family's torment.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Most conductors plunge straight into the torment to come; no pause, after all, is marked in the score.
    — David Allen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The lyrics suggest that your love for music is also a source of torment; what was going on there?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
  • But on Friday, the Dodgers’ recent torment of the Padres persisted.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Crews’s own family was a source of mystery and torment.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Despite all the torment over the years, Connor still wants to believe Logan will be coming.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
  • She’s become a cause célèbre of sorts in Hollywood, yet is still coming to terms with her years of torment at the hands of the government.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Egwene's capture and torment in the books is a cornerstone of her character, and this episode is tough to watch in places.
    — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Rhaenyra is stuck in her chambers, enduring the torment of a miscarriage in what amounts to the show's fourth hard-to-watch birthing sequence.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Now, for the first time, many of those freed describe their torment in detail, desperate for food and air in Hamas' tunnels.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The torment of her younger years has earned her loyal followers who root for her success.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events.
    — Valerie Wu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Hjorth’s piercing writing captures the torment and mania that roils under the surface of most all of us.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Naturally, nothing seems to go as planned as the UFO and aliens continue their torment of the ranch.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
  • Oh, the torment of being a gimbo (that’s a gay himbo) on Instagram.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The particular series feels loaded with pain and torment, but to what end?
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • What could be more painful than reliving the hellish torment of puberty?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • Arnold has been arrested at least five times for the aerial torment but nothing has deterred him.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
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torment

2 of 2 verb
  • Not knowing where she was tormented him.
  • It was tormented by the Pechenegs and the Cumans, and Russia got through all of it.
    — Daria Litvinova, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2020
  • That’s when her life choices began to torment her, and the crux of the book comes into view.
    — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The three of them — plus Mary Ellen’s crush Bob — are then tormented by the spirits raised by Annabelle.
    — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • All the shame, all the self-doubt, all the embarrassment, all the frustration of the scam, all back to torment her once again.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
  • Also on the set, Pearce’s Scrooge looked pale, tormented by his past.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • There is every chance that both of these receivers could torment the Vikings for years to come.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • After years of tormenting them in the playoffs, the Warriors beat the Spurs again Thursday.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Since the shooting, Muñoz Puente’s aunt has struggled to rid herself of the vivid images that torment her.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • That night of her birthday, and so many others, are burned in my brain and have tormented me since.
    — Tiffany Red, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • There were more than five tormenting messages from the user sent in April alone.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • Schoolyard bullies feel free to torment and shame their obese peers.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Years on end of poor stock returns would torment anyone who isn’t prepared for a long grind.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • And he’s been told that solar farms would be overrun by rats that would torment neighbors.
    — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • That’s a milestone Speraw would love to reach but doesn’t torment himself over.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
  • Mookie Betts is the one that will torment the longest and is the most unforgivable.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The Green Bay running back found a new, and most painful, way to torment the all-time rushing leader's former team.
    — Schuyler Dixon, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The loss continues to torment Amelia, and Samuel turns to a children's pop-up book, Mister Babadook, for macabre comfort.
    — Steven Thrash, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2022
  • One soldier would order him to the cell window, pull out a chocolate bar, and start slow dancing with it to torment him.
    — Tim Wild, Bon Appétit, 21 Sep. 2020
  • With the atom bomb, as it was first called, J. Robert Oppenheimer brought a new kind of fire to humankind, and he too was tormented by the powers that be.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • One day, to try to heal, Jones decided to put pen to paper and write letters to the very students who had tormented him.
    — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • She was never warned of the potential side effects — mood swings, dizziness — that torment her to this day.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • After George marries Rose and brings her back to the ranch with her teenage son, Phil begins to torment the new family.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This guy had been tormenting her and threatening to blow up Las Vegas.
    — Monique Newman, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
  • He was tormented in school, called homophobic slurs and shoved in the boys' bathroom.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • The film picks up in the present day, with a new terror threatening to torment the small California town of Beacon Hills.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • So many of us are still fighting for the right to exist in public without being tormented.
    — Erin Coulehan, Teen Vogue, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The 66-year-old prisoner pleaded through tears for the chains to be removed, but was met with a stony silence that continues to torment her.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2022
  • The film captures how much Michael was tormented by the drive to hide his sexuality.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • Two years after that defining moment, his words torment survivors of crimes that amounted to rape.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Feb. 2021

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