contorted
Example Sentences
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These works look like paintings of nonexistent sculptures: heavy, awkwardly contorted bathers.
From New York Times
Among the many documents of that is his “War and Peace,” a work contorted through forced revision into strident propaganda.
From New York Times
Share a snapshot of your dog contorted in an implausible and therefore adorable position and readers would wonder what you were speaking of when you’d typed, “Came home to this today.”
From Washington Post
Outside his window, he could see only flames and contorted steel “like blades,” he recalled.
From New York Times
Environmentalists said the NRC staff contorted its own rules in an attempt to keep the aging plant online in what amounted to an ominous sign for plant safety in a region crisscrossed by earthquake faults.
From Seattle Times
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