How to Use waterboarding in a Sentence

waterboarding

noun
  • Brennan has had to walk a similar tightrope about his own record on waterboarding.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • For those wondering, yes, that's waterboarding but with maple syrup.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • Her involvement with waterboarding has caused her trouble in the past.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Brace yourself for waterboarding and other tools of torture, wielded in grainy gloom.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Mitchell and Jessen were sent to the jail to carry out the techniques, including waterboarding.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 June 2017
  • Season 4 has depicted a rape and a stabbing and, yes, a waterboarding.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
  • Asking me to do any more than take sips of of my feelings would have been akin to emotional waterboarding — inescapable, cruel, and punishing.
    — Wendy Dean, STAT, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Haspel also helped carry out an order that the CIA destroy its waterboarding videos.
    — Frank Miles, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Tens of thousands more were imprisoned and tortured with rapes, beatings, electric shocks and waterboarding in the following years.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Haspel also helped carry out a 2005 order that the agency destroy videos of the waterboarding.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Electric shock torture and waterboarding were common, Jordash said.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Whether these and other tactics, such as slapping or waterboarding, qualify as torture under the law remains subject to debate.
    — Robert Jervis, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
  • Her actions in that instance, and in the waterboarding of al-Nashiri, are likely to be the focus of questions at her confirmation hearings.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Yet in the end, this example has little to do with the stranger problem or psychology, and everything to do with waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
    — Wray Herbert, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • She is also branded for involvement in destroying tapes of CIA waterboarding.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Although his parents were released and fled into exile, he and his brother were tortured — waterboarding, beatings and stress positions — and narrowly escaped being shot by prison guards.
    — Michael Warren, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The hostages lost 50 to 70 pounds by the time of the waterboarding, later becoming fully emaciated, Motka said.
    — Holmes Lybrand, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The tapes were made in 2002 and showed the interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri, including waterboarding.
    — CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Over the next four and a half years, he is transferred to secret prisons around the world and subjected to numerous rounds of enhanced interrogation, including at least 83 instances of waterboarding.
    — CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Glenn, transferred to the Philippines, ordered the waterboarding of Filipinos who supported independence.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Haspel ran a secret CIA prison in Thailand in 2002, where terror suspects were subjected to waterboarding.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • In the calls, Mary detailed to the deputies the steps Nathan was taking to kill her, from affixing a tracker on her car to stashing a black backpack in her garage containing duct tape, zip ties and a note with the word ‘waterboarding’ written on it.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Haspel also explained her role in ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes in 2005 that showed the brutal interrogation of a detainee, including waterboarding.
    — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • In it, the Bridges character, a victim of mistaken identity, has his head jammed in a toilet by criminals, a pre-9/11 Hollywood version of waterboarding.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 11 June 2018
  • In late 2002, Haspel oversaw a secret facility in Thailand where al-Nashiri was subjected to waterboarding and other tactics.
    — Alan Cowell and Charlie Savage, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
  • Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA’s ‘black site’ prisons where detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harrowing interrogation measures widely condemned as torture.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Zubaydah, the first detainee in the CIA program, was subjected to waterboarding and noise and sleep deprivation, according to the committee report and court documents.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In late 2002, Haspel oversaw a secret facility in Thailand where Nashiri was subjected to waterboarding and other tactics.
    — Alan Cowell and Charlie Savage, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
  • Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA’s ‘‘black site’’ prisons where detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harrowing interrogation measures widely condemned as torture.
    — Greg Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The problem came to a head Friday afternoon when she was summoned to the White House for some urgent questions, particularly on her role in the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2018

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