contortions

Example Sentences

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Arco Renz’s choreography of the students as they haunt the present day makes their distress visible through physical contortions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

But there is something else going on here which amplifies the jitters within Labour and causes contortions and anguish for others here at Westminster.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

All that effort has earned him nearly 6,000 followers on Instagram and kept the restaurant open for five years — no small feat given the economic contortions of the last half decade.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2024

So, the microstates of a black hole are the myriad specific contortions of spacetime that from a distance still look like the black hole.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover