Examples of torturous in a Sentence

relatives had to make the torturous decision to disconnect the patient's life-support system the post-infection treatment for rabies was as notoriously torturous as the disease itself

Recent Examples on the Web For non-Muslims, the idea of a fasting for a month while working around food might seem torturous. — Sarah Parvinistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022 The results—most of the strangers acquiesced—were less shocking than the process: the students found the asking to be torturous. — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022 Appropriately, John was the one who came up with the album's now-iconic name, inserting a little levity into the sublimely torturous experience. — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 2 Apr. 2022 Yet many job seekers say the self-promoting exercise is too torturous and time-consuming to be worth the effort for a less-than-dream role. — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022 By Rodgers’ own acknowledgement, this offseason’s decision will not drag out in torturous fashion. — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2022 How can the same publication at once have promoted the essentialness of appetite to good health and offered torturous tips for losing 10 percent of one’s body weight? — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2022 Neither the Lakers nor Dodgers were part of the Rams’ torturous six-year climb to the top. — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022 Through torturous laziness, Dyer forges a reckoning with Lawrence that seems destined to outlast the productions of many industrious scholars. — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2022 See More

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