writhe
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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
He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
“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
He twists and writhes against the police car, at times falling over on his side, as he waits 22 minutes for an ambulance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 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
He convulses then, jerks and judders, jolts and twists and writhes, so much that the whole earth shakes.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
It came, it saw, it occasionally flopped and writhed on the grass, but it truly conquered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It's all of ours first day," said a curator, re-assembling the artwork as it writhed.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
The quarterback briefly writhed on the turf but didn’t come out of the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 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
His body writhed, and the most disturbing retching sounds poured out of his gaping jaws.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
Sixteen hours after Tatum was writhing on the court against the New York Knicks, he was stretched out on O’Malley’s operating table on the West side of Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
When she refuses, Spears grabs the trimmer and clicks it on: “The extensions are hacked into lifeless scraps … the stray hairs curl on the floor like writhing snakes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Moments later, the cat lays purring and writhing on the ground until it "dies".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
They wrap around her small, squirming body, until she's swaddled inside a pink chrysalis like a writhing worm.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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