To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
1 Monstrous creatures writhe about the crags; the men shoot some of them.
2 In more ways than one Mrs. Budlong kept Carthage on the writhe .
3 The jests of the foul-mouthed rowdies would make me writhe with disgust.
4 But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast.
5 His little mistakes in etiquette or address made him writhe with torture.
6 Supple, snaky vines writhe amid the foliage, and bind the undergrowth together.
7 I could no more than writhe ; and I couldn't make a sound.
8 The teasing rake of nails over ribs made him want to writhe .
9 Anna continued to writhe and whimper, flailing her arms in unimaginable pain.
10 The pain made me writhe and moan, my face beaded with perspiration.
11 The body made a high, squealing sound and began to writhe violently.
12 Every now and then he would writhe pitifully and vomit salt water.
13 No, no, it is impossible, he added in Russian with a writhe .
14 You all want to writhe under the bootheel of the Parians again?
15 The thing clicked and squealed as it began to writhe into deconstruction.
16 She seems to writhe in one's gaze with slight, almost imperceptible movements.
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