Twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)
Синонимы
Examples for "contorted "
Examples for "contorted "
1 The chancellor's contorted logic pervades his approach to energy and the environment.
2 His body shook and twitched; his face was contorted ; his soul writhed.
3 The taut body slumped against the bed and the contorted features relaxed.
4 In the same moment she came towards him, her features grotesquely contorted .
5 Futilely the girl struck at the hate - contorted features so close to hers.
1 The prisoner's face was clear to see, no longer writhen and crazy.
2 There was the unmistakable mark of Cain upon his writhen brow!
3 Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.
4 It had a broken-looking hump at the top, which had probably been Mr. Farleigh's head, and three lumpy, writhen branches.
5 It was my habit to sit and write there under an aged writhen tree, gray with lichen and festooned with roses.
1 The girl wailed out again in agony and writhed in her bonds.
2 His body shook and twitched; his face was contorted; his soul writhed .
3 For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed , tormented.
4 The waves writhed and tossed on the surface as if in agony.
5 It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.
6 The rising water writhed , and a gelatinous mass appeared on the surface.
7 Throughout the towering Shape was awful movement; its units writhed within it.
8 He pulled it off and the thing writhed slowly in his hands.
9 Afterward, in his little room, he writhed in the agony of helplessness.
10 Her body writhed as her hips circled, seeking to bring him closer.
11 He writhed and roared in his anguish of both flesh and spirit.
12 He cursed his generous folly, and writhed in agony at the thought.
13 The deeper the bog, the more my spirit writhed to be free.
14 Again he writhed over, sick with pain and longing; and so lay.
15 Her slender fingers writhed together in her agony of doubt and irresolution.
16 The degraded king writhed in helpless indignation, for he was a captive.
Другие примеры для термина "writhed"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Об этом термине writhed
writhe Глагол
Изъявительное наклонение · Прошедшее
Writhed в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки