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Meanings of contorted by in English

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Usage of contorted by in English
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He could see that their faces were contorted by rage.
The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
2
He gave a smile, contorted by a grimace as the pain tore through him.
Helen of troy
3
Their pale features were contorted by the last few horrific moments of their lives.
No mercy
4
A handful of patients shuffle through the grounds in soiled clothing, faces contorted by toothy grimaces.
Reuters
5
His wings were smoothed back along his shoulders, his face contorted by the rush of air.
Boy’s Life
6
Despite the complex and barbaric wounding, an expression was still visible: her face was contorted by pain.
The marks of cain
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His face was contorted by a spasm.
The Garden of Allah
8
Her face was contorted by a spasm.
The Woman with the Fan
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His face is contorted by deep pain, ravaged, darkened by blotches; his flesh is rotting from within.
Halo Silentium
10
His face was contorted by pain.
From the Housetops
11
The child jerks forward, like a doll pulled by a string, but her expression is contorted by impotence.
The crimson petal and the white
12
Pictures showed metal shop fronts contorted by one of the blasts, with blackened scraps of debris littering the ground.
Reuters
13
Her features became contorted by terror-ashorribly contorted as Winnie's had been in the same spot and under the same circumstances.
Aylwin
14
The drowning man turned to him a face already contorted by the agony of exhaustion, and answered with a feeble 'No.'
Novel Notes
15
The body does not hang like a corpse but as if still living, and contorted by the bitter agony of His death.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti / With Translations Of The Life Of The...
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They were a few metres apart when the left side of the man's face was suddenly contorted by a sort of spasm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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