Sentence examples for torture instruments from inspiring English sources

The splendid Moorish-influenced building contains many original torture instruments, including the Iron Maiden and thumbscrews.

Among the displays are torture instruments and documents showing the U.S. military's involvement in training La Técnica's officers.

"They don't even hide the torture instruments," said Manfred Nowak, until recently the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture.

At the very least, give Robert Mugabe a call – surely he has some torture instruments he would like to offload.

Splashed across the white T-shirts and suits, the jungle green spikes looked like torture instruments, though the sheer abundance of prints took some of the edge off.

It's the size of a gymnasium, filled with bars, racks, and machines that look like torture instruments from the Middle Ages.

Instead, Gendry grabs a massive hammer that looks like a medieval torture instrument.

These include turbans, harem pants, jewelry that looks like a torture instrument, jumpsuits, ponchos, furry garments resembling large unidentified animals, boyfriend jeans, clogs and formal sweatpants.

If anyone counted up the numbers of the dying and the months of agony they suffer against their will in the many dying rooms of the nation's institutions, then the 1961 Suicide Act would emerge as the cruellest torture instrument.

And 4) It gives the old man a chance to show off his nifty manche a gigot, an antique French gadget that looks like a medieval torture instrument; a gift from my chum, Morley Safer, another lamb lover, it clamps on to the protruding shank bone and makes carving a cinch.

In this context, Middleton's sculpture is unnervingly evocative of a torture instrument.