writhing
Example Sentences
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Across the globe, Florence is wrenching Freddie from writhing on the floor to buck him up for the imminent match.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Calderon every so often would collapse at school, writhing from nerve pain as if engulfed in fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024
Strips of sticky paper are dangling from the ceiling, writhing with trapped and dying flies.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2024
What about that time he poked with a blunt finger a writhing blob of beetle larvae massing on the top of a desert grass stem?
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2024
Pong felt those eels in his stomach writhing again, but this time it was seasickness.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
Vocabulary lists containing writhing
Stargirl
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The Dragonet Prophecy
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