contorted
Example Sentences
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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
So, where did a baseball-loving future MLB star growing up in Sherman Oaks come to such a contorted conclusion?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
It has contorted statutory language to stop immigrants from obtaining effective relief against wrongful detention and deportation.
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2025
He could see it in their faces—in Joe’s contorted grimace, in Don Hume’s wide-open, astonished eyes, eyes that seemed to stare past him into some unfathomable void.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
