Torturous in a sentence

Mr Verhofstadt, who was the European Parliament’s boss during the torturous UK-EU negotiations, said: "British politicians are far behind public opinion.

The recommendations were based on the policies and procedures for solitary confinement that she presented during a meeting in September, at which the public referred to the practice as torturous and discriminatory against people of color.

Time ticked on as the sun sank lower in the sky, the self-proclaimed fastest sport in the world proceeding at a torturous pace and everyone willing these painful final moments to be put out of their misery.

Well … for the Kelce parents, it’s wonderful and torturous all at once.

A plot in which straitlaced Fisher son David (Michael C. Hall) gets "carjacked" over the course of a torturous, nerve-wracking episode also makes the bold choice to deal with trauma at length.

He should recognize that appealing to his party to honour its “democratic values” is a torturous proposal because there is no such tradition.

If you’re into biking it’s torturous.

It was a common migrant experience, meanwhile, in the 1950s and 1960s to Anglicise or change a Greek or Italian name to assimilate or simply end the torturous ritual of explaining pronunciations.

Oto Ozul: the news media and police are going to burn in a hot torturous hell when they die or if Jesus comes back first.

She said the rules at the institution were even 'more strict' and now, instead of just being abused inside her 'torturous' home, it was happening at school by her instructors too.

Shortly after, Truman, with a punctured heart, has a torturous cafe scene with his ex, Jack Dunphy (Joe Mantello), where Jack pleads with Truman to enter rehab.

The casting process became increasingly torturous, with adverts placed in trade magazines.

They may spend torturous hours each night struggling to study for a test or complete homework assignments, then forget to bring the work to school.

You said you didn’t want to because the prospect seemed torturous.

Both he and Di Blasi describe those months that followed as the happiest in the Avalanches’ sometimes-torturous two-decade existence.

But, as with that other torturous saga, there comes a point when one just wishes it could all be over.

But her questioning does, at times, feel torturous.

He has a personal vendetta against the Chief, Dr. Niles Caulder, and orchestrates the entire events of the first season as an act of torturous revenge.

The hydrotherapy room is covered in green tiles and, in episode 4, "Angel Of Mercy: Part Two", Mildred—along with Dr. Richard Hanover (Jon Jon Briones)—uses the torturous form of psychiatric care to torture a hired assassin.

The transitional government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front, a coalition of several armed groups, singed a peace deal earlier this month, capping torturous talks that had been underway in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, since late last year.