Sentence examples for form of torment from inspiring English sources

The World Cup semi-final on 4 July 1990 was decided by a new form of torment for England fans: a penalty shoot-out.

One voguish form of torment among kids online is setting up fake accounts (identity-theft light, since no money is involved) for other children, and posting photographs and comments in their names.

Julie – or "Jules", as she is rechristened by her fashionable new friends – is the "writer" of this narrative, a girl with neither beauty nor talent but a gift for observation that becomes, as her life progresses, a form of torment.

After struggling through winters when the snow never came and winters when it came and retreated by Lincoln's Birthday, the Northeast ski industry has been hit with an entirely new form of torment: snow that will not quit even though the skiers have.

As a fiction writer with little success in that area of writing, I can say without a doubt that I have my own demons, my own form of torment.

Many of these forms of torment, including subjecting prisoners to stress positions, sleep disruption, semi-starvation, and extreme cold, came from a 1957 study, conducted by the Air Force, called "Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War".

Christians in Minya are facing are facing other forms of torment.

Foreign courts have ruled that living for decades under the threat of imminent execution is a form of psychological torment.

Time and again the impression is of a man in a form of omnipresent torment of one kind or another: sometimes it would be mild and possibly amusing; at other moments, debilitating and damagingly ­neurotic.

"Lifelong Death Sentences," by Adam Liptak (Sidebar column, Nov. 1), says that "foreign courts have ruled that living for decades under the threat of imminent execution is a form of psychological torment".

By the end you were sick to death of her breasts, you associated them with pain, hunger, torment - they were a form of torture, really.