contortions
Example Sentences
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In the end, his legal team came with little more than contortions and cartwheels, trying to twist Bianco’s overreach into existing law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
This opinion was supported by David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter, external, who wrote that the film "chugs along satisfyingly even with the occasional patch of sluggishness and the usual overly convoluted plot contortions".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
The contortions of so many travelers bending, crouching, and hopping alongside the metal detector lent comic flavor to the plane journey.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
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
