How to Use tormentor in a Sentence
tormentor
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And once again, the Patriots are the tormentors of the Raiders.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
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Each in their own way, the Roys began to cope with the loss of their tormentor.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
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The smaller player faces his tormentor with blood on his face and a sway in his gait.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
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The film follows two teens who team up to get revenge on both of their tormentors.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 June 2023
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As the boy’s skin flushes red, his tormentors see blood.
—Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
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All, of course, would like to see their tormentor captured.
—Bob Sylva, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
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The season then takes the form of a whodunit, as Joe seeks out the tormentor who’s setting him up by killing others in the group.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
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The males stood upright and charged at their tormentors, swinging their arms over their heads.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
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Louis feels free in his new life — and then imprisoned by a lover-tormentor.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
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The problem is, Gerald was my main tormentor from eighth grade all through high school.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2020
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Their tormentors have also called in false bomb threats to venues using their names in three states.
—Jacob Ward, NBC News, 29 June 2023
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James gave his tormentors $100 in iTunes gift cards, but the threats continued.
—Stephanie Warsmith, USA Today, 9 May 2023
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Cooper dodges the bullet and hustles onto the train, which will take him to a boat that will take him to Europe—and far away from his tormentor.
—Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
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Jessica then spoke but chose not to look at her tormentor.
—CBS News, 13 Nov. 2021
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In all honesty, my sisters went from being my tormentors to my best friends.
—Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2017
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In all honesty, my sisters went from being my tormentors to my best friends.
—Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2017
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But in season 6, Stark got revenge on her rapist and tormentor by leading him to a grisly death.
—Nina Bahadur, SELF, 7 July 2017
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Words led to blows, and Renteria flattened his tormentor.
—Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 July 2017
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His first tormentor appears to have been his now-estranged father, 37-year-old Shawn Aaron White.
—Travis Dorman, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
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Before the sentence was handed down, three of Ray’s victims asked the judge to send their tormentor to prison for as long as possible.
—Molly Crane-Newman New York Daily News (tns), al, 20 Jan. 2023
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Nicolas Batum was his primary tormentor, but most of the Clippers had a hand in it.
—oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
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Their tormentors blasted open the shutters and threw grenades inside.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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Dong-eun, a high school student, screams as a classmate sears a hair curler into her arm while two other tormentors hold her down.
—Matt Stevens, New York Times, 7 May 2023
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The world is learning from Gazans how to broadly love their families, their neighbors and even their tormentors.
—Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
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Finally, there’s the technique than may be the most effective one of all: Turn your tormentor into a friend.
—Robert Sutton, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
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Wimpy Greg and his older brother and chief tormentor try to survive their parents’ attempts to have them bond.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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Late in the 1967 thriller, the distressed damsel temporarily gets the upper hand by stabbing her tormentor.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 1 July 2023
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The Bills, however get a shot at their long-time tormentors on Saturday.
—Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
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The notion of a weak, cornered creature turning the tables on his tormentor clearly stuck with him.
—Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 2 Jan. 2017
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Another second half collapse did City in, costing them the most desired prize at the hands of their tormentors.
—Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
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