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

He has the preternatural ability to contort his facial expressions ever so slightly, going from innocent to cold and malevolent and back again in a split second.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2025

With a swarm of dancers all wearing the same gray uniform, they contort their bodies around her, creating a collective spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2025

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë