Sentences with 'tortured'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tortured and other words derived from it.
• « The Assyrians tortured and mutilated defeated enemies, even skinning them alive, when faced with any threat of resistance or rebellion. »
• « Communist leaders were subjected to show trials, both in their own countries and sometimes after being brought to Moscow, where they were first tortured into confessing to various fabricated crimes (collaboration with Western powers to overthrow communism was very popular), and then executed. »
• « These former prisoners wanted Mikhail Gorbachev to acknowledge that the system of which he is now the champion had arrested, imprisoned and tortured thousands of men and women like them for crimes such as speaking and thinking freely. »