writhe

How to use writhe in a sentence

He loathed himself for submitting to her cruelty, for it was intentional cruelty—she made him writhe and suffer of set purpose.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Mrs. Prentice eyed him in a way that would have made a person with a thinner skin writhe a little.

For a time, the South Wind watched them writhe and twist and try to throw each other to the ground.

He had got under the armor of his enemy at last, and he could feel him wince and writhe at each thrust that he drove home.

Shall the gazer who would read the secrets of the stars turn because under his feet a worm may writhe?

We writhe in pain and bear the brunt of an arrogant tyranny from whatever force that created and controls us.

Andrea might writhe and supplicate and despair as he would—in vain.

His imaginings made him writhe with anguish; a weight lay on his chest, his blood ran riot, his head was dizzy.

They wear yearning facial expressions; when they start to walk, they do not walk, but writhe and wiggle.

As if some last possible claim upon his regard had been dissipated, he let his lips writhe in mockery.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985