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
So there’s a couple ways he was able to contort his body, flips that he was able to do that only he was able to do.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024
The closest overhead bins are filled with roller bags, so I contort myself to shove my backpack beneath the seat in front of mine.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Vocabulary lists containing contort
Of Mice and Men
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A Long Way Gone
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