contorted
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Mandragora produces short films and Mr de Launay's script for a feature called Contorted Hazel was selected for the Bafta Rocliffe New Writing Forum at last year's Edinburgh Film Festival.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2012
Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Contorted formations, logans and rock-basins, reveal the decomposition of softer measures that has been proceeding for ages.
From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)
So the fierce bear, made fiercer by the smart Of the bold Lybian's mortal guided dart, Turns round upon the wound, and the tough spear Contorted o'er her breast does flying bear Down....
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
Crumpled grey-white papers Blow along the side-walks, Contorted, horrible, Without curves.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy
Vocabulary lists containing contorted
The Giver
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Twists and Turns: Tor
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"Of Mice and Men"
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