The suspects retracted confessions'' they said had been tortured out of them.

Fain would I have all men thus tortured out of their proud and tyrannous existence!

Not through words but sounds were the meanings tortured out.... Samarc meant to take the field.

I did get the shit tortured out of myself, though, which was informational, from a certain point of view.

The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.

But is it necessary that my life should be tortured out of me in order that my soul may be saved?

It is a veritable Pluto's workshop, where the rocks are twisted, burned, and tortured out of all semblance to their original condition.

"She is tortured out of reverence," Santorio exclaimed apart, and would have hushed her.