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Meanings of twisting in English
Catalan
deformació Spanish
deformación The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
Usage of twisting in English
1
You control how much water you want by twisting a simple knob.
2
Every evening was occupied in twisting and tying evergreen in the chapel.
3
And those words from Christopher Nolan's latest time-twisting spectacle speak for themselves.
4
Soane was twisting his corkscrew in the wire of the champagne bottle.
5
The twisting saps his energy but the doctors can't find anything wrong.
6
With much twisting and maneuvering, I repeated the process on the left.
7
A sea of confusion spread out all around them, groaning and twisting.
8
We reached the main road, a twisting white ribbon in the moonlight.
9
Wednesday brought with it another twisting day in the Jason Rohde trial.
10
The little man by the door was twisting nervously in his chair.
11
He managed, by twisting his body, to keep his men in sight.
12
But, let us scratch around again in German tongue twisting family history.
13
She'd not leave Tamara.' He hesitated, his hand twisting at his belt.
14
The twisting dragons of the doorhandle attracted me as I drew near.
15
What is out of order is when rubbing shoulders becomes twisting arms.
16
A huge mass of similar vines was writhing and twisting directly overhead.
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Twisting through the time
Twisting across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common