tormentor

How To Use tormentor In A Sentence

• Arguing and bickering wasn't going to change her tormentors' mind set, and Selina, for one, was not an agitator nor instigator.
• she screamed furiously at her tormentors
• This artifice is called equivocation or amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
• I know that you are playing with me just as a cat plays with a mouse; yet even the most piteous mousekin sometimes causes his tormentor surprise or disappointment by getting under a bureau or behind the stove, where, for the moment, she cannot paw him. Mince Pie
• Reference to the diagrams will show that the tormentors have a "flipper," which runs to the proscenium arch wall; in the flipper is usually a door or a curtained opening for the entrances and exits of acts in One. Writing for Vaudeville
• The children eventually rise up against their tormentors.
• Indeed, in our modern mindset, we take the notion of the tormentor and merely blot it out, wishing away its existence without really addressing the underlying causes.
• Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, seventy-eight and an invalid, having been thrown roughly to the pavement from the tumbrel, was heard to speak words of forgiveness and encouragement to her tormentor. 27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.
• Eugene O'Neill of accident which keeps a homesick sailor tied to the sea in "The Long Voyage Home," and the mutual humiliation which abashes both victim and tormentors when, as conclusion to the panicky solemnities of "In the Zone," a parcel of Smitty's is found to be a bunch of old love-letters instead of the suspected bomb. The Real Eugene O'Neil
• I will discrown thee and give thy body to the tormentors, and set thy soul loose to follow her whom thou hast slain. ' The World's Desire