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torturous

[ US /ˈtɔɹˌtʃuəs/ ]
[ UK /tˈɔːt‍ʃəɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely painful

How To Use torturous In A Sentence

  • On the other hand, however, he wouldn't have to continue with that torturous pain anymore.
  • After a period of intense interrogation under torturous conditions, he is sent to a POW camp.
  • First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business.
  • And I would say that Ann, as a tacit conder of a torturous regime, has lost that morale high ground as well. China sentences Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, to "re-education through labor."
  • That poor misguided soul was, like as not, struck fixedly mute by the sheer torturous weight of cricketing knowledge displayed hereabouts.
  • y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
  • This proved to be a torturous task as many drafts, revisions and rewrites poured out of my head into my PC for weeks on end.
  • My understanding of Roman history is that they were incredibly gory and torturous in their punishment.
  • They especially have come to dread the torturous term "day-to-day" as it relates to the findings of the team's medical staff. NY Daily News
  • Before that, is a torturous trek down the three-kilometre stretch before you reach the saner parts of Bangalore.
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