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Example sentences for: tortured

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Anyone who had been stretched on this legal rack for so long would do anything to prevent the next guy from being similarly tortured.
State Department report on Pakistan saying that "the police committed numerous extra-judicial killings and tortured, abused and raped citizens" and that "there is no evidence that any police officers were brought to justice."
Make that chuck," opines John Anderson in the Los Angeles Times . Most reviewers agree with this assessment, saying the Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Molly Shannon as nerdy, horny, tortured Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher--with a signature pratfall that exposes her large white underpants--does not translate well to the big screen.
On the opposite side of the road a lane leads to the site of the prison where thousands of people were tortured and executed between 1933 and 1945, including many of the officers involved in the Stauffenberg plot.
In Australia, whose army is heading the peacekeeping force in East Timor, the Sydney Morning Herald led Wednesday on the discovery by Australian troops of the tortured bodies of 30 people in a well behind the home in Dili of the East Timorese independence leader Manuel Carrascalao.