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
• But for too many women, that’s when a new kind of torment begins.
  — Ginny Graves, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
• Scandal and torment trailed her adult career from the start.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
• The show can bring so much greatness to your life, but the fans can bring so much hate and torment.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 July 2021
• Even the music becomes a kind of torment when it’s stretched out to eight hours.
  — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The torment of her younger years has earned her loyal followers who root for her success.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2021
• This is also my war—my resistance to it, my torment over it, my struggle against it.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
• The lyrics suggest that your love for music is also a source of torment; what was going on there?
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
• But having the copyright to the clip would not end his family's torment.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
• 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
• What could be more painful than reliving the hellish torment of puberty?
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• Most conductors plunge straight into the torment to come; no pause, after all, is marked in the score.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• Arnold has been arrested at least five times for the aerial torment but nothing has deterred him.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
• And yet, what is even more compelling is the personal torment of these characters.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• Sochor confessed to the crime, but her body has never been found − still a torment to her family.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 July 2026
• Danes works hard to effectively wear Aggie’s torment on her face, and on her body.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025

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
• But your dad doesn’t need to be a celeb to enjoy the simple pleasures of tormenting him.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 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