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Example sentences for: torturing

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5) The Democrats are reaping what they sowed (after torturing Robert Bork, John Tower, and Clarence Thomas).
As a boy growing up in the hills of West Virginia, Nash enjoyed torturing animals and building homemade bombs with two other unpopular youngsters, one of whom was accidentally killed by a blast.
(He has mellowed slightly since his younger days, when he took pleasure in torturing the press.
He doesn't get a sexual charge out of the brutality, nor does he develop a penchant for torturing innocents.
might mean “Who are you torturing?”