Example sentences for: tormented

How can you use “tormented” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Quibbles: Doubts are raised about explanations offered for Minor's sexual mania, which tormented him so severely that he amputated his penis.

  • To accept this, of course, you have to accept her version of Bill Clinton as a helpless, goofy romantic, a emotional isolate tormented by the barrenness of life in Washington.

  • This week's subject: the second of the book's four chapters, which is written from the viewpoint of Quentin, a tormented Harvard student who eventually kills himself.

  • As a young man, the brilliant and tormented Chambers, a Columbia University dropout, consorted with married women, was caught stealing dozens of books from the New York Public Library, and bummed his way to New Orleans (he would later identify with Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg).

  • He was persecuted, tormented, and crucified.


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