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Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

But if you’ve put decades into watching this band, you deserve to see what this incarnation can wrench and writhe into.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

When athletes tear ACLs in other sports, crowds are used to watching them writhe on the ground in agony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

The Colombian star put on a spectacular show that saw her dance with knives, writhe in a fake cave and play a fiery guitar solo during Objection Tango.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023

She began to writhe in her lard like a slug.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“The Gilded Age” embarks on its third season as America writhes in what many believe to be its death throes.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

Through a hole in the circular set, an elevator rises with various set pieces, and most notably, the hospital bed on which Prior writhes in agony, and where he’s nursed by Justin Weaks’s marvelous Belize.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023

He writhes on the ground before being slumped up against a car, unable to properly sit up himself.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023

As Mr. Lewis writhes on the bed, officers yell at him to show his hands and order him to “crawl out.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

The river writhes around his calves, knees, thighs, and then waist.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

When Williams fell to the grass on the run with a noncontact injury on Sunday, the football world feared the worst as he writhed in agony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"It's all of ours first day," said a curator, re-assembling the artwork as it writhed.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Muncy writhed on the ground in obvious pain before being helped to the clubhouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

Levis writhed and reached for his left leg, remaining on the turf while medical staff ran out to evaluate him.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023

As the jellyfish moved, or drifted in the artificial current, its tentacles writhed against the glass so that it looked almost as if it was trying to break out.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Late last month, an Indonesia-based wildlife foundation shared footage showing an orangutan writhing on the ground on a palm oil plantation in West Kalimantan, one of Indonesia's hardest-hit provinces.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

There is no escape: Garbagemen find them in their shoes at night; or writhing in their arm hair; or embedded in their scalps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

As soon as Mahomes was left writhing on the ground and grabbing his knee late in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, it was clear he had sustained a serious injury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

The ghost of Gaga past re-emerges for Perfect Celebrity, writhing with camp energy in a shallow grave as she sings about the pressure and torture of stardom.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

There were giant patties of dung on the ground, with huge maggots writhing and burrowing in them, but Thor avoided all of them.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman