contort

Example Sentences

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Coal took an early shower and contorted himself trying to extract the splinters from hard-to-reach places with a pair of tweezers.

From Literature

Acquiring the semiautonomous Danish territory would further elevate his claims to greatness and the status of legend in his own contorted reality.

From Salon

Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.

From Salon

As I crouched behind a rippling fountain, stretching and contorting my body to attain the correct angle, I began to wonder, “Do the Lumineers think I’m some kind of a lunatic?”

From Los Angeles Times

I grab my collar and try to contort my neck to see it.

From Literature