The survivors described the torturous interrogation they endured as a haunting memory.

She smiled torturously, as if every expression cost her a silent scream.

The protesters argued that no person is torturable under any circumstances.

Survivors testified about the torturings they endured, and their accounts finally led to investigations.

Scholars debated whether the relic was actually a torture stake or a later misinterpretation.

Historians doubted the authenticity of the accounts describing bamboo torture, which allegedly involved a shoot growing through the victim's body and emerging on the other side.

The old castle's basement still held a locked torture chamber that no one dared enter.

The old castle's torture chambers were sealed and forgotten, their history a silent warning.

Local historians discovered a hidden cellar filled with old torture stakes, rusted and splintered from centuries of neglect.

At the tournament, she surprised everyone by replying to 1.e4 with the Spanish Torture, determined to slowly suffocate her opponent's game.