Sentence examples for to torture from inspiring English sources

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to torture

noun

Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.

Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.

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To "destroy" is to torture.

The New York Times

What drives a person to torture another?

The New York Times - Books

They are oddly impervious to torture.

The New York Times

Mr Wang said this amounted to torture.

Independent

Those not executed were subjected to torture.

The Economist

Do such tactics amount to torture?

The New York Times

To torture him?

The New Yorker

Just to torture her.

The New Yorker

I didn't want to torture myself.

The New York Times - Magazine

He decided to torture her.

The Guardian

We don't want to torture.

The Guardian

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