contortions

Example Sentences

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American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

So many explanations and justifications, so many verbal contortions as he attempts to talk through his latest defeat.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

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

All of those candidate contortions bring to mind a line from Hamlet: To thine own self be true.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024

Laughing in fear and embarrassment, some were holding back and scooping up the coins knocked off by the painful contortions of the others.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison