Meanings of contorted position in English

There lay Schloss on the floor, face down, in a horribly contorted position.

That gave him more steadiness; but would not this contorted position destroy all chance of shooting accurately?

To sit quiet, without speech, and ruminate in some contorted position of body comes to him by nature.

Belinda, the only half-intelligent fang-banger I'd ever met, was lying on the storeroom floor in a curiously contorted position.

Inside was a body, in such a contorted position that he thought its "legs and arms had been cut off".

He worked for forty-five minutes in that contorted position, reeling and unreeling, swinging the line delicately back and forth, striving to gain purchase.

Roland had to lie in a contorted position on the corpse to reach the injured arm, and he saw that Macklin's wrist had turned black.

The rest would be sleeping in contorted positions in the upstairs rooms.

They seemed to be wriggling out of their contorted positions and smiling encouragement to him.

A woman often has more options for the contorted positions crack climbing may require, especially getting into pods or offwidths.

People with panties on their heads, in stress positions, basically in pretzel positions, excruciating contorted positions from which they can't move.

In the ashtray she sees a sort of dugout, possibly a shell crater with soldiers lying heaped together in hideously contorted positions, all dead.