How To Use Excruciate In A Sentence
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For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
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He puffs and winces, excruciated with chest pains - which recur horribly in joyless mid-coitus with his other woman.
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There have been cases in which men have been mysteriously excruciated with the thought of having committed the unpardonable sin.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
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The headache excruciated her.
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Some years ago a musician in New York of considerable reputation refused to play on a friend's piano because, as he said, it was a little out of tune and his ear was excruciated by the slightest discord.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
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For years Nazi Germany's policy abroad has been that of exacting concessions with the threat that otherwise she will perpetrate a world horror by which the humane will be excruciated while she herself, not being humane, will be entertained if not exhilarated.
What Is Now At Stake In Europe
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He had a particular account of these events, from a fellow-student who resided in the same village, and who, having been present on the melancholy occasion, was able to place it in all its agony of horrors before his excruciated imagination.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Come within a dozen yards of him; nay, at the most, blow on him, and he was excruciated -- you rubbed his sensitive hairs at a furlong's distance.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Sharpe was instantly excruciated with embarrassment.
Sharpe's Rifles
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His smile was not so much excruciated as automated, as grooved as a drive at a throwdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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His smile was not so much excruciated as automated, as grooved as a drive at a throwdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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If being in the plane was bad then the jump was excruciated.
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To let you have your plank and your bonewash (O the hastroubles you lost!), to give you your pound of platinum and a thousand thongs a year (O, you were excruciated, in honour bound to the cross of your own cruelfiction!) to let you have your Sarday spree and holinight sleep
Finnegans Wake
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So we are invited to relish the very excesses of a Goering, to excruciate in the intellectualizing of a Speer, and to be appalled by the evidence (eyewitness, documentary, and candid-camera) presented.
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Nothing, except the lingering echo in his mind of the last thing he had heard; of that excruciated scream of someone on the ship, burning to death.
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I'd suggest going to a museum or something, and you get this excruciated look on your face, and I could tell that you were calculating the time that you have to be away from your imaginary friends and whether or not it was worth it.
The Ann chapter
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However, I can see why they deleted the portion about "God's love being so great that he gave his only son to suffer an excruciated death in order to cover everyone's shortcomings and forge a path to heaven.
Troubling
