contort

Example Sentences

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This is a book of endless storytelling, as characters contort themselves to please the regime’s shifting narratives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

When it was retired last year, it was replaced with a newer, fully electric model developers said could contort its metal frame in even more ways.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

With the limited time frame, participating theater crews have to quickly establish a place and a sense of purpose, lending the audience, which must immediately contort to their role as actors, a call to action.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

Vance “weird” is rather effective, and has caused Vance and his party-mates to contort themselves to prove he’s not, in fact, weird.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2024

I saw a grim smile contort Mr. Rochester’s lips, and he muttered—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë