14 example sentences using torture.
Torture used in a sentence
Torture in a sentence as a noun
You learn in prison that torture is now common.
But guess what, once you're done with the hours of torture to get good, then you realize the fun.
[3] CBS sat on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal at the request of the Pentagon.
I am proud to have always been vocally against the war, torture and the Patriot Act.
But everyone who uploads videos or pictures of this torture is labeled a leaker.
Yes, Burroughs did say it was "overrated", but I can tell you from experience, it's absolute torture.
The CIA did all of the bad things listed in Dropbox article as directed by Bush and Condoleezza, and they are still actively trying to cover up torture.
Torture in a sentence as a verb
The public would be wise to feel genuine terror at the thought of a police force that consists of the kinds of people who actually enjoy the kind torture described in this article.
We've got all that **** now: hyper-surveillance, secret and therefore meaningless 'laws', kidnapping, torture, America has ******* gulags now.
In that scenario a strong international condemnation of torture suddenly looks way more appealing.
We are now a country that starts unnecessary wars, tortures detainees and denies due process and spends vast resources on surveilling every citizen and she had a role in that.
When it comes to the bad things groups of people, such as governments, do to individuals, whether it's killing, torture, imprisonment with or without trial, surveillance or any other of the misdeeds that seems to have returned from the dark ages we deserve the same protection as American citizens.
I hope she hasn't ever donated to any disagreeable referendum campaigns.........or ever been a core member of an administration that left us with two disastrous wars, an offshore gulag, the greatest economic disaster in 70 years, a record of legitimizing torture, a decline in prestige on the world stage.
If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have **** lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.
Torture definitions
unbearable physical pain
See also: torment
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
See also: distortion overrefinement straining twisting
the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
See also: torturing
torment emotionally or mentally
See also: torment excruciate rack
subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
See also: excruciate torment