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Tortured in sentence

244 examples of Tortured in a sentence

He'd been tortured.
He was tortured, brutally tortured to death.
I don't know if he's tortured.
What I also realized at that point was that it was not only Cambodia, but of the 113 developing countries that torture, 93 of these countries have all passed laws that say you have a right to a lawyer and you have a right not to be tortured.
And after a pause, they said, "They had been tortured."
So the pieces are, not only the training of the lawyers, but us finding a way to systematically implement early access to counsel, because they are the safeguard in the system for people who are being tortured.
He'd lose himself in his work, but it seemed tortured.
Countless women, men and children have been raped, tortured or enslaved.
She has now joined a call center in Hyderabad and may have tortured you about your credit card bills in a very clear English accent.
Every year, countless North Koreans are caught in China and repatriated to North Korea, where they can be tortured, imprisoned, or publicly executed.
One prominent Bahraini activist, who was arrested and tortured by his government, has said that the interrogators showed him transcripts of his telephone calls and text messages.
And of brothels where children are forced to receive five, 15 clients per day, and if they rebel, they are tortured with electricity.
Soldiers have forced her to watch as her husband was tortured and killed.
Because she refused, she was tortured.
At one point, she managed to escape from this torture chamber to a neighbor's house, and when she went there, instead of protecting her, they dragged her back to her husband's house, and she was tortured even worse.
He ruled the country with an iron fist, and anyone who dared question his authority was arrested, tortured, jailed or even killed.
My existence was tortured by monotony, a reality that was often too much to bear.
As one CMU prisoner said, "We're not being tortured here, except psychologically."
While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other colonists he ruled, to the point that he was removed from power and thrown in jail.
Then his mentor, a priest, was kidnapped, tortured, killed and thrown into a river.
He followed her a month later, after his brothers were tortured and his factory was taken over by the government.
And I go on about how my father was arrested when I was 13, and tortured, all the history ... I don't want to get into details now, because you'll start sleeping.
But the thing is, at the end of the day, what interests them the most is: How was he tortured?
Then I remember the sacrifice of my father, who was tortured so many times for daring to protest against the regime.
That day in the truck, all I could imagine was that my dad was being tortured and his body was the vessel of that torture.
Despite being tortured, deprived and isolated, Noor gave nothing away.
But when a group of Cyril’s monks incited a riot, badly injuring Orestes in the process, he had their leader tortured to death.
Last words said to his mother who was also tortured to death: "Don't worry.
[They tortured me at home and never let me go out.]
I trained at Bellevue Hospital Survivors of Political Torture Program, and I heard one too many stories of people growing up to idolize their leadership, only to end up being tortured by their heroes.
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