Examples of 'were torture' in a sentence

Meaning of "were torture"

were torture: Describes a situation or experience that involved extreme pain, suffering, or anguish. This phrase is used to convey the harsh or agonizing nature of the circumstances

How to use "were torture" in a sentence

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Those long hours were torture for us waiting.
He slept often and his dreams were torture.
The next three years were torture for my husband and me.
Those two years of my life were torture.
Those were torture in high school.
Those last ten miles were torture.
They were torture chambers.
The next few days were torture.
Palace were torture rooms designed to inflict the five most painful ways to die.
The last few miles were torture.
Other classrooms were torture chambers, where victims were tortured.
The last few floors were torture.
Poetry workshops were torture machines, survived by a good deal of smugness to kill the pain.
The last six miles were torture.
There were torture marks on her face and Zainab 's tongue was crushed between her teeth.

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The baby showers were torture.
The group 's members were torture victims and / or family members of victims.
The first few weeks here without one were torture.
If this were torture.
I was scared the days I had to work with the man because they were torture.
Sundays were torture.
The hours I spent in labor waiting for him to arrive were torture.
Those words were torture.
Birds chirping (dogs barking in distance) McGEE: (sighs) Those last ten miles were torture.
Those moments were torture.
Illegal detention of human rights activists was systematic, as were torture and rape.
IEP meetings were torture for us.
Except for the car rides . Those were torture.
Mom, the therapies were torture for Dad.
The victim would be flailing about . If this were torture.
He argued that “ science should as it were torture nature 's secrets out of her . ”.
Seventeen days passed -- and believe me, I counted them, because they were torture for me.
If betrayed, the consequences were torture and death.
Twenty minutes of silence were torture.
McGEE, Those last ten miles were torture.

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