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

The torturing of prisoners was documented in the report.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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