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How to use tormenting in a sentence

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Her struggle is presented as though it were a tormenting process of personal redemption.
Though he had not suffered physically during the war, he appeared to be carrying a tormenting burden.
I say, make the parents sign a declaration that their kids will refrain from tormenting the adults and keep well away.
But what about the third-rate, Deliverance style hicks tormenting the kids?
I swear they enjoyed tormenting us kids, making us go up and down the staircases so often just to get to our next classes in about three minutes.
It should be obvious that psychologically and physically tormenting a prisoner is illegal in the United States.
Rather a nasty, brutish man, he seems to delight in tormenting Harry Potter.
If the history was one of beating up someone, or tormenting or torturing someone, that is always relevant leading up to the act.
Caroline and Stefan were still just hanging around a college bar tormenting randos for fun.
He becomes less a magician and more and more not only an illusionist of increasing power, but one bent on tormenting his audience rather than entertaining them.
Playing off a child's worst nightmare, Reynolds shows how carrots suddenly seem to lurk in every corner, tormenting a poor bunny.
Some sysops enjoyed tormenting their members or had the illusion of being fair by providing a level of access called Twit.
Yet he can't help but reject Sweden's social idealism, and even hanker after the tormenting certainties of his youth.
Maradona began tormenting the England back line with his mazy dribbling, winning a series of free-kicks around the box.
This repulsion is particularly tormenting as oral malodour still appears to be an unmentionable fact rather than a curable condition.
Studies show that a tormenting population of flies can cause reductions in milk yield.
In cases where there is abuse, it is tormenting, dangerous and even life-threatening.
She is a woman with a tormenting disability who is quite simply recognized as a daughter of Abraham without any ties attached.
With its unpredictable weather and extremes in temperature, the Korean climate is often tormenting.
Marital relations are conducted in the gardens, one story being that the woman is summoned by her husband tormenting their pigs until they squeal.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I had been tormenting her for the dozenth time with the statement and catalogue of my sentiments toward her.
The skin of his head seemed to move in this travail of vain and tormenting suppositions.
When the tormenting noise-beam struck again, the abyssal monster flung itself about crazily.
Hitherto the human face had mixed often in my dreams, but not despotically, nor with any special power of tormenting.
The tormenting smile returned, and she slowly drew from her skirt a packet of yellow letters held together by an elastic band.
I asked, in feigned surprise, for I could not resist tormenting her a little.
Here is some ill-disposed quartz, tormenting a peaceable octahedron of fluor, in mere caprice.
I trust I am not superstitious, but the vision had remained with me in all its tormenting detail.
I took revenge on you for recognizing me by tormenting you as far as I dared.
Eugen, as if stung by some tormenting thought, sprung up and we left the wood.
Howbeit, I was not sorry to hear that Nym should leave this vicinage, and thereby cease tormenting of our Helen.
Children who are covered with prickly heat in warm weather will be thus effectually relieved from that tormenting eruption.
These demonic women would inflict tormenting madness upon condemned murderers and perjurers.
A young lady, in the act of tormenting a guitar strung about her neck by a couple of yards of blue ribbon, is not half so engaging.
A Hedgehog, passing by, saw his anguish and inquired if he should drive away the flies that were tormenting him.
All summer she had made much of Jed, by way of tormenting selena.
Yet he lay there, wide-eyed, wondering, and tormenting himself.
There is a serenity in his nervous, febrile, and tormenting talent.
Why shouldst thou now unpleasant be, Thy wrath against God venting, That He a little bird made thee, Thy silly head tormenting, Because He made thee not a man?
At length the Bedouin grew tired of tormenting, and sent him on a camel to the top of a high barren mountain, where he left him to take his chance.
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