How to Use waterboarding in a Sentence

waterboarding

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• Mitchell and Jessen were sent to the jail to carry out the techniques, including waterboarding.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 June 2017
• Brennan has had to walk a similar tightrope about his own record on waterboarding.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Haspel also helped carry out a 2005 order that the agency destroy videos of the waterboarding.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Her involvement with waterboarding has caused her trouble in the past.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Season 4 has depicted a rape and a stabbing and, yes, a waterboarding.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
• For those wondering, yes, that's waterboarding but with maple syrup.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 7 May 2020
• Haspel also helped carry out an order that the CIA destroy its waterboarding videos.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Brace yourself for waterboarding and other tools of torture, wielded in grainy gloom.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• Her actions in that instance, and in the waterboarding of al-Nashiri, are likely to be the focus of questions at her confirmation hearings.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Mar. 2018
• The tapes were made in 2002 and showed the interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri, including waterboarding.
  — CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• Asking me to do any more than take sips of of my feelings would have been akin to emotional waterboarding — inescapable, cruel, and punishing.
  — Wendy Dean, STAT, 30 Apr. 2020
• The hostages lost 50 to 70 pounds by the time of the waterboarding, later becoming fully emaciated, Motka said.
  — Holmes Lybrand, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• Tens of thousands more were imprisoned and tortured with rapes, beatings, electric shocks and waterboarding in the following years.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• Haspel ran a secret CIA prison in Thailand in 2002, where terror suspects were subjected to waterboarding.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• As a result, many senior officials were not aware that the United State had long regarded waterboarding as torture.
  — chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• The spliced clips from the movie showed two separate waterboarding sessions carried out by Mitchell and his future business partner, Dr. Bruce Jessen, who will testify later this week.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 29 Jan. 2020
• Yet in the end, this example has little to do with the stranger problem or psychology, and everything to do with waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
  — Wray Herbert, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Over the next four and a half years, he is transferred to secret prisons around the world and subjected to numerous rounds of enhanced interrogation, including at least 83 instances of waterboarding.
  — CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• In it, the Bridges character, a victim of mistaken identity, has his head jammed in a toilet by criminals, a pre-9/11 Hollywood version of waterboarding.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 11 June 2018
• Zubaydah, the first detainee in the CIA program, was subjected to waterboarding and noise and sleep deprivation, according to the committee report and court documents.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
• She is also branded for involvement in destroying tapes of CIA waterboarding.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• In late 2002, Haspel oversaw a secret facility in Thailand where al-Nashiri was subjected to waterboarding and other tactics.
  — Alan Cowell and Charlie Savage, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
• Haspel was the chief of the Cat's Eye base in Thailand, but was appointed and arrived after that prisoner was subjected to any waterboarding, according to Probpublica's retraction.
  — Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
• The problem came to a head Friday afternoon when she was summoned to the White House for some urgent questions, particularly on her role in the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2018
• Electric shock torture and waterboarding were common, Jordash said.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• In late 2002, Haspel oversaw a secret facility in Thailand where Nashiri was subjected to waterboarding and other tactics.
  — Alan Cowell and Charlie Savage, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
• Zubaydah, the first detainee in the CIA program, was subjected to waterboarding and noise and sleep deprivation, according to the Senate committee’s report and court documents.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2021
• Haspel also explained her role in ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes in 2005 that showed the brutal interrogation of a detainee, including waterboarding.
  — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• Although his parents were released and fled into exile, he and his brother were tortured — waterboarding, beatings and stress positions — and narrowly escaped being shot by prison guards.
  — Michael Warren, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Glenn, transferred to the Philippines, ordered the waterboarding of Filipinos who supported independence.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024