How to Use torment in a Sentence

torment

1 of 2 noun
  • The mosquitoes were a constant torment.
  • After years of torment, she left her husband.
  • No one could understand his inner torment.
  • Chavez faced his own share of torment.
    — Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Scandal and torment trailed her adult career from the start.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The torment was almost too great to endure.
    — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Childress isn’t facing the same type of torment.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Oooof, this emotional torment hits so good!
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Sharabi said he was kidnapped by Hamas and lived in torment.
    — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Even so, a few things about this season’s ongoing torment are clear.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Tiny source of torment for a storybook princess – Green sphere.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Dealing with other humans is a torment to her.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Whether that provides solace or torment is the question.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • This is also my war—my resistance to it, my torment over it, my struggle against it.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • More papules emerge as blisters burst, prolonging the torment.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Speaking of torment, what happened to Mediodía?
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Maxwell's course to help give Trump his chance to engage in this torment is simple.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Danes works hard to effectively wear Aggie’s torment on her face, and on her body.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • His icy, anguished eyes—though both are the same color—convey all the torment a misfit on Earth might feel.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The final months of Curtis’ life in 1980 were filled with torment.
    — Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Only an empty sleeping mat and endless torment.
    — Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • From the moment the Creature is brought to life, his existence is defined by torment and pain.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In that final part of the cycle—the writing part—were torments, perhaps even tortures, but good things happened.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Now, with social media, this torment affects many, and the series captures this current theme.
    — Monica Coviello, Vanity Fair, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Hell is nevertheless filled with bloody and horrific torments.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Nathan devotes the brunt of his attention to the torment of a world that has every reason to doubt the mercy of a divine creator.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
  • What to do after writing some of this century’s most devastating songs about the torment of breaking up?
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Looming over the desk is a giant cross made of yardsticks, those famous instruments of parochial-school torment, formed into a set of crosshairs.
    — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Sore from the torment of her family’s banishment, Espinoza feels the pulse of current events.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026

torment

2 of 2 verb
  • Not knowing where she was tormented him.
  • In the past, that kind of small mistake would torment her for the rest of the day.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • No one seemed to see a problem in the body that tormented me.
    — Leila Mottley, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Jigsaw torments blind guys, too.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And he’s been told that solar farms would be overrun by rats that would torment neighbors.
    — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • Years on end of poor stock returns would torment anyone who isn’t prepared for a long grind.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • That’s when her life choices began to torment her, and the crux of the book comes into view.
    — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2021
  • There is every chance that both of these receivers could torment the Vikings for years to come.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • That night of her birthday, and so many others, are burned in my brain and have tormented me since.
    — Tiffany Red, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • My first employee, I was kind of tormented for a week in my own mind.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • He is tormented by the Road Runner again and again and again.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
  • There were more than five tormenting messages from the user sent in April alone.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • We have been tormented by the cost of electricity for decades.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • Also on the set, Pearce’s Scrooge looked pale, tormented by his past.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The older boys would torment Jaden on the basketball court.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • That’s a milestone Speraw would love to reach but doesn’t torment himself over.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
  • The Grabber hounds Finn through an old phone booth and torments Gwen through her dreams.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That fear that torments families.
    — Morgan Phillips, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Stop tormenting the boy, says Helga.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The ghosts of his past begin to torment him, forcing him to face his fears and guilts to not be consumed by madness.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Kratos is tormented by his past acts, while trying to find his footing as a single father.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Coleman says her nephew was defending himself from a boy who had been tormenting him for more than two years.
    — Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Two years after that defining moment, his words torment survivors of crimes that amounted to rape.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Feb. 2021
  • His captors tormented him by saying that his family didn’t care about him.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This demon, for want of a better word, seems to relish tormenting people.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Bishop is clearly still tormented by his role in convicting the men.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
  • He was tormented in school, called homophobic slurs and shoved in the boys' bathroom.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • She was never warned of the potential side effects — mood swings, dizziness — that torment her to this day.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • One soldier would order him to the cell window, pull out a chocolate bar, and start slow dancing with it to torment him.
    — Tim Wild, Bon Appétit, 21 Sep. 2020
  • These were the questions that tormented Levine in the weeks after her father’s death.
    — Alessandra Schade, Time, 5 Aug. 2025

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