torture - use in sentences

Object

  • chamber: Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?
  • survivor: Provide training for health professionals working with torture survivors.
  • beating: The risk of torture, beatings and prison life were all on the menu for an infidel such as myself.
  • rape: Information about torture, rape and trauma refugees experienced is also not readily available.
  • detainee: Our criminal laws make it a felony to conspire to torture a detainee abroad.
  • imprisonment: In some parts of the world this persecution consists of torture, imprisonment.

Converse of object

  • inflict: They also speak of almost unimaginable tortures inflicted upon Islamist prisoners in army interrogation centers.

Adjective modifier

  • cruel: Enter the world of the female domination and cruel tortures.
  • horrible: Even under these horrible tortures, Victor Jara magnificently sang a portion of the song of the Popular Unity party.
  • psychological: Cuamba claimed he made this confession because of " psychological torture " .

Modifying Another Word

  • under: Both the US and the British governments use evidence obtained under torture, in contravention of the Geneva Convention.

Preposition: in

  • prison: Moses' arrest and torture in prison is not unusual in Uganda.

Preposition: of

  • detainee: The Secretary of State also stated: " The United States Government does not authorize or condone torture of detainees.
  • prisoner: Much store was also put in the administration refusal to grant the CIA's request to officially allow torture of prisoners.

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