tortured

How To Use tortured In A Sentence

• The language is necessarily tortured in describing the 18,225 electronic scratch-ticket machines that would be apportioned according to a formula in the initiative.
• Their e-mails were 'tortured haikus of indirectness', so he told me. Relationships Of Mutual Mistrust
• I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
• It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
• They may not realise that the Irishman was a tortured soul during the match, and was losing sleep at the possibility of becoming the Crucible's biggest-ever choker.
• The prisoner told lawyers he was tortured using the strappado, in which a prisoner is suspended from a bar with handcuffs.
• Previously, detainees have been hit or tortured during questioning, villagers say.
• They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.
• We Tortured and We'd Do It Again for his latest hysterical rant in support of kidglove treatment for headlopping babyhunters. The Jawa Report
• They have been subjected to the most degrading treatment and have been tortured to extract confessions from them.