How to Use torturous in a Sentence

torturous

adjective

• For all but the elite of the elite, the process is torturous.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Lying awake in the middle of the night can feel torturous.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 28 June 2023
• This is true for all the models and most of the poses, some of which are torturous and might need to be held off and on for hours.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• The state has followed a torturous legal path to get Phoenix built.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 17 May 2017
• The last, most torturous, step is to cool the pie for at least 30 minutes before digging in.
  — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
• The story has been trapped in the torturous hell that is Waterford Manor for over 20 hours.
  — Nicole Pomarico, refinery29.com, 8 June 2019
• 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
• That’s one of the most torturous aspects of being a woman.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Sep. 2018
• 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
• For me, the ordeal of leaning over a sink with a towel around my neck while my wife is yelling at me — that was torturous.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
• Compared to the torturous slog of Double Agents, a.k.a.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 May 2021
• That process has been torturous in the four elections since April 2019 that preceded this one.
  — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• Assailants used a chain and a Taser during the torturous assault.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• The game had dribbled away and cricket has a way of extending the agony of the vanquished in torturous slow motion.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The death of her mother during a torturous childbirth opened the series.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• Why bother with torturous stilettos when a comfy flat will do the trick?
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2021
• The most important phase of the spring closet makeover can prove torturous: deciding what to let go of.
  — Christine Whitney, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• This single field, just 160 acres of Kansas dirt, tells the story of a torturous wheat season.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Crafting is the most torturous part of parenting for me.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 16 Oct. 2021
• Kylo is pulled between the light and dark sides of the Force, and Driver's anguish and fury makes the tension between the two sides seem torturous and lonely.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Last Days Those around her describe the last months and weeks of Amy’s life as physically torturous.
  — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• The wait has been torturous, and even after the Sharks have arrived in the finals, their frustration endures.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 30 May 2016
• Even more torturous than being Bill’s wife right now is, in some ways, being his First Lady.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
• The Dolphins’ three-game offensive malaise has been torturous for Adam Gase and his players.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 11 Oct. 2017
• But to someone with a certain type of misophonia, these same sounds can be torturous.
  — Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
• Sharletta Evans lost her three-year-old son in a hail of bullets one torturous December evening in 1995.
  — Lynnell Hancock, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The last of the Angola 3 has written a memoir about his torturous ordeal.
  — Emily Lane, nola.com, 6 June 2019
• Guests will endure torturous trials and come face to face with some of John Kramer’s most diabolical contraptions before time runs out.
  — William Earl, Variety, 25 June 2024
• For Erice, a master, cinema works as a revelatory force that can illuminate our truest feelings and yearnings, despite the efforts of some of his characters to escape their torturous pasts.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024