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Meanings of contort in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wring"
Examples for "wring"
1
This Haslerig family demonstrates that you can wring success out of anything.
2
The Colonel's occasional efforts to wring information out of her yielded nothing.
3
You could almost wring water out of the air in our tent.
4
It outmaneuvers rivals and strikes creative financing deals to wring out value.
5
Rovio certainly knows how to wring the most out of a franchise.
1
Paul McGinley must wish he was a magician, able to distort reality.
2
Polls using lists of emotive circumstances tend to distort results, it said.
3
The University of Ohio discovered that distraction distort how we view reality.
4
Everyone knows anger can distort judgment, temporarily blinding us to negative consequences.
5
Sometimes, such an approach can distort the quality of the actual music.
1
As these bullets strike different targets, they're gonna deform in different ways.
2
Tight or high-heeled shoes deform the feet and make the gait awkward.
3
Certainly, such temples as these shall erelong cease to deform the landscape.
4
It took twenty-six years for that blessing to deform into a curse.
5
How tendons deform in different hierarchical levels under shear and compression is unknown.
Usage of contort in English
1
The podium, the lights, the focus and expectation contort the audience's perceptions.
2
He would contort your muscles and dislocate your bones like any osteopath.
3
I contort my wife's old nursing pillow to support my reclined back.
4
I saw a grim smile contort Mr. Rochester's lips, and he muttered-
5
How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
6
Grant saw Lloyd's eyes grow and his mouth contort before he continued.
7
Gamers no longer use stand-up machines; instead, they contort to sofas at home.
8
That means they don't have to contort to see what they're working on.
9
She wasn't going to let him contort a single soul more.
10
Hissing, shrieking my name now, as their bodies contort in rage.
11
For a moment Malorie sees her features contort, then shine instead.
12
Why is it nobler to contort the mind than to contort the body?
13
She felt her face contort in the moment before tears came.
14
She heard a savage snarling, and she saw Laura's face contort with horror.
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I didn't have enough left in me to contort my face.
16
I watched her face contort for a moment, then her eyes swam blue.
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