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Meanings of writhen in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "writhed"
Examples for "writhed"
1
The girl wailed out again in agony and writhed in her bonds.
2
His body shook and twitched; his face was contorted; his soul writhed.
3
For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
4
The waves writhed and tossed on the surface as if in agony.
5
It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.
1
The chancellor's contorted logic pervades his approach to energy and the environment.
2
His body shook and twitched; his face was contorted; his soul writhed.
3
The taut body slumped against the bed and the contorted features relaxed.
4
In the same moment she came towards him, her features grotesquely contorted.
5
Futilely the girl struck at the hate-contorted features so close to hers.
Usage of writhen in anglès
1
The prisoner's face was clear to see, no longer writhen and crazy.
2
There was the unmistakable mark of Cain upon his writhen brow!
3
Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.
4
It had a broken-looking hump at the top, which had probably been Mr. Farleigh's head, and three lumpy, writhen branches.
5
It was my habit to sit and write there under an aged writhen tree, gray with lichen and festooned with roses.
6
Their countenances seemed fiercely writhen into the wildest expression of pride, hate, and a desperate purpose of fighting to the very last.
7
His writhen lips drew up and back crescent-wise over red gums, showing huge yellow fangs and an expression of most daunting ferocity.
8
But nowadays glamour suits only with serried muscles, frowns, and writhen lips; where darkness is we shudder, saying, Behold a great mystery!
9
They quickly fired the house, and thrusting away the wooden support under their feet, gave their necks to the noose to be writhen.
10
The upward-flying stream of metal had struck him on the cheek and chin, and had left him writhen and distorted there almost beyond imagination.
11
He has drawn back a pace or two, and now stands leaning against one of the bent and writhen trunks of the old trees.
12
He stalked stiff-legged, with a snarl writhen on his lips, and with recurrent waves of hair-bristling along his back and up his shoulders and neck.
13
"My choice were rather," said the knight, "that my writhen features should blacken, as they are like to do, in this evening's setting sun."
14
The prisoner's face was clear to see, no longer writhen and crazy.
15
There was the unmistakable mark of Cain upon his writhen brow!
16
Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.
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