Sentence examples for tortured down from inspiring English sources

She was forced to listen to him being tortured down a phone line while they extorted her.

I'm still haunted by my brother's agonizing and blood-curdling screams as he was being tortured down the hall from my cell.

Much of the memo is concerned with defining torture down: if the pain inflicted on a prisoner is less than the pain that accompanies "serious physical injury, such as organ failure," it's not torture.

When the orders to torture came down, some realized the jeopardy they were in.

"My teammates have been knocked down, tortured in the sense of being at the bottom of the barrel for so long during their short careers in New Jersey.

As officials of Allende's government and anyone else suspected of leftist political affiliations were hunted down, tortured, and executed, the death of Neruda hung in the air like a curse.

Ever since the federal agent Charlie Mayo (Liam Neeson) was tortured face down in a pile of watermelon, he has been trying to get his nerve back.

During an operation Charlie was caught and tortured face down in a pile of watermelon and ever since he has been looking for his lost nerve.

"It has locked up journalists, tortured opponents and clamped down on all dissent.

She'd been tied down and tortured, under a big round sun.

He was turned down, arrested, tortured and pushed close to suicide.