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

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

While watching the final round in the Bahamas, Woods described Scheffler's unconventional footwork as "the contortions he gets into" but could not hide his admiration for the quality and control of the champion's ball striking.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024

The 30-year-old Olympian has worked on refining his style with signature head spins and body contortions while standing out among other B-boys.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Nothing about the natural world, at first glance, suggests the existence of a gene; indeed, you have to perform rather bizarre experimental contortions to uncover the idea of discrete particles of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee