The researchers were criticized for torturing lab animals to obtain faster results.

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

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

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

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.

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

During SEAL training, the recruits dreaded the surf torture that left them shivering and exhausted on the cold, rocky beach.

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