How to Use tormentor in a Sentence

tormentor

noun

• And once again, the Patriots are the tormentors of the Raiders.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
• Each in their own way, the Roys began to cope with the loss of their tormentor.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
• The smaller player faces his tormentor with blood on his face and a sway in his gait.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• The film follows two teens who team up to get revenge on both of their tormentors.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 June 2023
• As the boy’s skin flushes red, his tormentors see blood.
  — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• All, of course, would like to see their tormentor captured.
  — Bob Sylva, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
• The season then takes the form of a whodunit, as Joe seeks out the tormentor who’s setting him up by killing others in the group.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
• The males stood upright and charged at their tormentors, swinging their arms over their heads.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Louis feels free in his new life — and then imprisoned by a lover-tormentor.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• The problem is, Gerald was my main tormentor from eighth grade all through high school.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2020
• Their tormentors have also called in false bomb threats to venues using their names in three states.
  — Jacob Ward, NBC News, 29 June 2023
• James gave his tormentors $100 in iTunes gift cards, but the threats continued.
  — Stephanie Warsmith, USA Today, 9 May 2023
• Cooper dodges the bullet and hustles onto the train, which will take him to a boat that will take him to Europe—and far away from his tormentor.
  — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
• Jessica then spoke but chose not to look at her tormentor.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2021
• In all honesty, my sisters went from being my tormentors to my best friends.
  — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2017
• In all honesty, my sisters went from being my tormentors to my best friends.
  — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2017
• But in season 6, Stark got revenge on her rapist and tormentor by leading him to a grisly death.
  — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 7 July 2017
• Words led to blows, and Renteria flattened his tormentor.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 July 2017
• His first tormentor appears to have been his now-estranged father, 37-year-old Shawn Aaron White.
  — Travis Dorman, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• Before the sentence was handed down, three of Ray’s victims asked the judge to send their tormentor to prison for as long as possible.
  — Molly Crane-Newman New York Daily News (tns), al, 20 Jan. 2023
• Nicolas Batum was his primary tormentor, but most of the Clippers had a hand in it.
  — oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
• The world is learning from Gazans how to broadly love their families, their neighbors and even their tormentors.
  — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Finally, there’s the technique than may be the most effective one of all: Turn your tormentor into a friend.
  — Robert Sutton, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• Wimpy Greg and his older brother and chief tormentor try to survive their parents’ attempts to have them bond.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Late in the 1967 thriller, the distressed damsel temporarily gets the upper hand by stabbing her tormentor.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 1 July 2023
• The Bills, however get a shot at their long-time tormentors on Saturday.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
• The notion of a weak, cornered creature turning the tables on his tormentor clearly stuck with him.
  — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 2 Jan. 2017
• Another second half collapse did City in, costing them the most desired prize at the hands of their tormentors.
  — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The series follows how far Jake will go to protect himself and the new life he’s built now that a tormentor knows his secret and is threatening him.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 9 Jan. 2023
• Diego returned to campus that Monday and found his tormentors waiting for him.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024