How To Use Contort In A Sentence

Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
The road itself twisted and contorted as much as the river as it dodged through and around clusters of trees and boulders: indigenous and erratics.
What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
Vicky Fox, a towering transwoman with yellow hair and brown skin, hurls herself dramatically onto the floor and begins contorting about on the weathered tile when I ask to take her picture. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Her face contorted with the pain but she wrenched harder, thinking of her freedom.

Heck, sometime the chips they carry are so large that you have to be a contortionist to avoid knocking them over.
His face was hideously contorted by rage.
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
Kevin Drum relays without comment a letter from a conservative defending torture, an exercise in intellectual and moral contortionism that is revelatory, I think. 12/18/2007
A 1960s ranch calls for a contemporary garden with a sculptural plant, such as a Japanese maple or contorted filbert.
It had a peculiar gearstick, and the driver could find reverse only after various undignified contortions.
Her expression contorted and she barked at the tall southerner's companion. A Triumph of Souls
He looked at me for a moment, his face contorted with pain, and reached out to touch my cheek.
He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.
I've seen the footage countless times, yet it is not the whole four minutes from start to finish which are seared on to my memory, but the single image of Coe's contorted face and uplifted arms as he crosses the finishing line.
The 2010 election was the political equivalent of the perfect crime: The GOP vigorously took on all reforms designed to rebalance the economy for the long term, tying Washington up in contorted knots, then were rewarded at the polls by voters dissatisfied with an ugly D.C. culture unable to produce economic renewal. Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson: Giving the Keys Back to the Folks Who Crashed the Car
The author who has written off humanity despises Picasso for contorting the human figure, and our ardent misanthropist has an official in a Swiss euthanasia clinic righteously beaten up. La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review
They had so much soul, and that so contortionate, that she could not even keep her attention on them long enough to discover why they were not alive. Swan Song
A bedstead and a long-broken twin tub washing machine, hang together in this contorted web.
I must have been a sight in my blood stained wedding dress and shoes that were still oddly contorted from the crash.
Her face muscles contorted, her eyes turned black and her body began to undulate like a snake.
His face contorted in fury at the murder of his kinsmen, and with a shrill cry he leapt at the nearest of the ogrish guards.
It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
Their bodies had suffered contortion as a result of malnutrition.
Quidam features a variety of incredible circus acts, including the German wheel, banquine, Spanish webs, diabolos, aerial contortion in silk and, of course, a trio of crazy clowns.
I've given him positions even a contortionist couldn't survive. INSIDERS
These, however, were sufficient to show me that the gneiss of Depilto was overlain conformably by the contorted schists; that the latter were followed by soft trappean beds, and these by thick beds of quartz-conglomerate, apparently derived from the degradation of the schistose rocks, with their numerous quartz veins. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
His face was contorted with rage, the veins in his neck were swollen and his nostrils were flared, like a bull about to charge. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
The compound flowers, are of a pale, greenish yellow, collected together in a small oblong head, upon a long slender peduncle, the legumes are large, lunated and slat, placed in a spiral or contorted manner, each containing several hard compressed seed, or little beans. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary.
Her face is contorted with anguish. The Sun
I had to admire the contortions of the gymnasts.
It frequently happens that the contortions or displacements due to motion are seen to affect a single line belonging to a particular substance, while the other lines of _that same substance_ remain imperturbable. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
The one bit I didn't enjoy was the double jointed contortionist, who actually dislocated his shoulder and elbow on stage.
Some bills go through numerous legislative contortions before they are approved.
Her face contorted with pain and shock as if she'd just walked into a lamp post.
Watch for the scene where Sid is trying to get comfortable on a rock - he flops around, contorting his body into every possible shape.
I'm not prying, "Antimodes explained, seeing a pained expression contort the child's face. The Soulforge
The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
Traditional freaks challenged audiences 'notions of sexuality: the bearded lady was an early drag queen, contortionists challenged the mind to consider sexual impossibilities and the sword swallower spoke for itself, gentleman. Piper Weiss: What's So Freaky About a Pussycat Doll?
She's tall and gaunt, her face pale and contorted. Times, Sunday Times
This is more properly called joint hypermobility, and some individuals with this condition find employment as contortionists.
I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet.
The contest wasn't on right away so I had some intimate nightclub yelling conversations and scoped the place, which features four cages where exhibitionists contort on platforms that rise and descend on hydraulic lifts.
Instead, contorted, angular forms are selected. Times, Sunday Times
A contrivance is some abstract contortion that is said to describe reality, except that the contrivance comes with a felt emotionality that may invite deeper revelation, or the emotionality may come off as deceptive. Ambiguity Tolerance
Siriano's use of scale was one of the more exciting elements, layering his fabrics in such a way that almost worked like a body-contorting illusion. Gazelle Emami: Christian Siriano Fall 2011 (PHOTOS): Some Like It Dark
He twists and contorts the impossible and the plausible, having his characters do impossible things that make absolute sense.
It's afternoon, about a quarter to one, and the sparrows abound, alighting in the numerous olive trees twisting in writhen contortion round the flanks of the pavilion.
There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In a short video, men tied in contorted positions are held down on the ground and questioned. Indonesia Military Confirms Troops In Papua Torture Footage (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
We took pictures of the ziraffe (her strange bendy giraffe with zebra stripes capable of manifold contortions).
The contorted moonlet dropped away, dwindled, vanished. I Don’t Understand ?
With her own eyes she had watched them work, their blond hair caked with dust and beer, their pink faces contorted with the joy of pillage.
The interplay between contract and tort the so-called contort is very important and not easy to understand. The Volokh Conspiracy » Business Torts:
Called chikungunya, from an East African tribal word describing the contorted postures of its pain-wracked victims, the pathogen has been the focus of intense scientific interest ever since a 2006 outbreak on the island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean infected about 266,000 people, killing 260 of them. The Daily News - News
In these oils and mixed-media works, depicting nudes, dancers, holidays and fever dreams — and which at times resemble scenes of ritual sacrifice — he thinks like an abstractionist and moves like a contortionist. Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire
Perhaps casual work is a great choice for flexible Australians who happen to be contortionists.
It was a deserted hallway, so I squeaked in alarm when she spun around a corner to face me, her face contorted in fury.
Its form can vary from irregular and contorted to a near-perfect but sterile fruit. parthenocarpy, which is the formation of fruits without fertilization or the formation of seeds. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
He adjusted the focus of the lamp and watched Clark's face contort.
The Chinese State Circus presents gymnasts, contortionists, acrobats and pole-jumpers on February 23-25.
Here a huge column of curiously contorted basalt has been connected by a solid high-arched causeway with the cliff, which is equally remarkable, showing a central boss of stone with lines radiating quaquaversally. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Each dancer had to perform splits in all directions, backbends, contortions, or any unique movement in the dancer's repertoire.
Their screaming contorting aerobatics as they swoop on clouds of insects keeps me greatly amused.
The emptiness of it all is to be hidden under the esctasy – contorted faces, twisted limbs, saints, whose only true passion is the dread of their own engulfing doubt, which they try to drown in sickly exaltation. Jenny: A Novel
His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony.
But … then … in an ASTONISHING display of rhetorical contortionism … you IMMEDIATELY spin around and righteously and arbitrarily CONDEMN another group of human beings – homosexuals, as you choose to put it … Think Progress » Controversial Florida Politician Unsure If Muslims Should Hold Public Office, Says He’d ‘Prefer’ If Gays Stayed Out
For two hours he had watched clowns and contortionists and acrobats and fliers and singers.
Such movements may be compared with the contortions which many vegetable tissues undergo when subjected to exosmose. Insectivorous Plants
His face was contorted in agony as he tried to lift himself out of the chair.
No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing. Là-bas
His face was contorted with fear. Times, Sunday Times
We had to go through all the usual contortions to get a ticket .
He found Pelagia, apparently paralysed into a contorted posture that had left her neck ricked backwards. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.
His features contorted by more than the usual disfigurement, he was backing away, shaking his head. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
What's provocative about Copeland's book is how he doesn't stick to just what's on the stage, as so many dance-critic purists do, but draws associations and contrasts with other art dynamics, such as demonstrating how Cunningham's light, flexible, transistorized movements answered the heavy clomp and primitivism of Jackson Pollock's action painting and the archetypal contortions of Martha Graham. Mind Expansion thru Sight and Sound: James Wolcott
It twists their faces and contorts their features.
And perhaps from yoga, or more likely from an innate lack of ligaments, he has acquired the flexibility of a contortionist.
His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
His face was covered by a see-through plastic, which steamed up with his breath every twenty seconds or so, and his eyes might flutter open, or his face contort into another horrible position.
At a stroke you will be able to work out power numbers, divide big numbers just by converting the number to a log number, performing a subtraction, and antiloging and vola, the answer in around 5 seconds, but stretch it out to 20 seconds with various facial contortions to add drama and other things and you will earn pats on the back from morons and evil stares from real mathematicians. The Root Problem
One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain. CHAPTER IX
Whiplash's head rolled away from her lifeless body, mouth contorted in a hideous grin.
As he sifts through the works of scientists, naturalists, composers and poets, Rothenberg performs intellectual contortions in an attempt to assemble or establish a unified theory of why birds sing.
The problem is when you're on track with road tyres, there isn't enough rubber making contact with the tarmac, which causes the tyres to twist and contort, meaning substantially less grip after only a few laps. Car Advice | News | Reviews
He didn't see the yellow letters of the sign turn blood red, or the cute face of the munchkin contort into the twisted visage of a vampire.
‘Our clients will be able to enjoy comedy, magicians, contortionists, escapologists and music,’ he said.
TB asked him after he moved through a particularly contorted portion of the tai chi exercise. METAPLANETARY
The Beauty Pill are a surgically precise band whose compositions perform limber arabesques without losing a step, and Clark's homespun production accentuates every contortion.
The crowd went delirious and pointed with glee as the windscreen wiper machines bumped repeatedly into his contorted form and grew all the more confused.
The rules of evidence likely are what the government most desires to evade, once putatively having reached beyond Geneva articles, and contorted MCA's untested rendition of habeas in its various forms; [the instant case in re K. al-Marri being the test]; Padilla's suit has worked toward the realm of admissible evidence; the foregoing link is JB's discussion recently and a newspaper article; here is another pointer to a government exhibit in the matter of the government's worries that MKhan would receive permission to testify about the same things Padilla wants to discuss in open public record court; i.e., a kind of graymail argument by defense in those two cases; that exhibit appearing in the weblog there. Balkinization
In Sunbury, and at intervals along the road, were dead bodies lying in contorted attitudes, horses as well as men, overturned carts and luggage, all covered thickly with black dust. The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
So I replaced it between ear and shoulder, squeezed it harder, and contorted so that most of my bodyweight was pressing my eyes down into my hands. I'm a little bit blocked : The Archive
This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw, gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by. his writhing, unnatural posture. A Study in Scarlet
Instead, Treasury is trying to negotiate bailouts bank by bank, and behaving as if the banks hold all the cards — contorting the terms of each deal to minimize government ownership while forswearing government influence over bank strategy or operations. The Quiet Coup
See "Zumanity," the unbelievably sexy Cirque du Soleil show at the New York, New York casino that combines the best of burlesque and acrobatics and contortionism (tickets range from $65 to $125; zumanity. com). Travel: Loving Las Vegas
I turn immediately to see her coming toward me, her face contorted in rage.
With that he hurled himself out of the shop, his features contorted and congested with fury. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
His face, through the visor, was contorted in a weird grimace of glee as he brought the club down.
The roots, which are the officinal part, are contorted, knotty and annulated, and about the thickness of a goose quill. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
You've got to be loud and zany and willing to contort your face and body into positions that might fairly be described as unattractive; you've got to be completely uninhibited, shameless, and out of control. Annual Hog Calling Contest at Illinois State Fair Won by a Woman for the First Time
It was a contorted version of the truth.
He was a master of disguise who used walnut juice to change the colour of his skin and would contort his face to avoid recognition.
Darwin didn't need to put his theories through contortions to account for flightless birds and cave fish.
I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet.
There are six feet of standing headroom and sufficient room, with the door closed, to change clothes without feeling like a contortionist.
I worked to keep the wheel steady, watching as his lips contorted and then expelled a wet brown plug of used chaw.
'Get out!' she shouted, her mouth contorted by emotion.
His face was contorted with pain and the source did not seem to be his injury alone.
Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
In the way he played with our sense both of being a body and having a body, the contortionist seemed a kind of mystic.
In amongst the wildly contorted Proterozoic strata, we spotted small fish, an assortment of hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.), small spider crabs (Libinia spp.), and a number of different taxa of cancroids, including juvenile Rock crabs (Cancer irroratus). "Here, by the ocean, the sky's filled with leaves..."
Laughter peals through Taipei's Great Tranquility Park as the play's hero, the deliciously impish King Monkey, contorts his face with mirthful delight at the havoc he has inspired.
I reached Rob, and he was still face down, contorting his limbs but making no move to get up.
His speciality was contortionism, which he performed on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
And, while the heavy machinery digs and sifts, construction workers use blowtorches to cut away the intertwined sections of steel, which is contorted like giant pretzels.
Mukti was a tannish, goatishly good-looking man in his late thirties with thick blue-black hair that grew low on a brow contorted with furious concentration. The Guardian World News
My daughters would then walk into the room and begin to weep, their little faces contorted with grief. Christianity Today
It was a room, a young person's room (untidy, chaotic, littered with music warez and cheap slipchip films from Quiapo), and on the leftmost side, slightly distorted, was a veiled person, hands stretched out above as if in supplication, face contorted by a sorrow no one understood. Archive 2003-03-01
Her face contorts in pain as she moves but she remains in her restless sleep.
Presently the music of the orchestra ceased, and certain female acrobats, who had been "contorting" themselves fearfully and horribly for a quarter of an hour upon the stage, kissed their hands, which were as hard as ropes, from the nature of their profession, and smiled a fond farewell. In Luck at Last
Ibrahim's grimace was personal, the kind of contortion an insult brings. What About the Iraqis?
Sure, the combination of Carrey's zealous contortionism and the Farrellys 'fearlessly low humor will make you laugh (see Jim wrestle a dying cow, see him locked in mortal combat with himself, see him pee all over the wall). Gross And Grosser
The van driver from Croydon's face contorted and he began to weep as he was mobbed on stage. Times, Sunday Times
I was fully expecting that in contrast to the shrieking flying monkeys that descended on Pharyngula blog over the wafer business discussed there, that there would be some kind of contorting to point out how President Steve's incident was different and special and non-sacrisomething, sorta like how it was ok for him to take the GG's parade salute. Wafers, slow news days and lessons to be learned.
Contortionist Daniel Browning Smith discovered his incredible bendiness as a child when he fell from a top bunk and did the splits.
You'd need to be a contortionist to handle that manipulation of body, head and base of body.
Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice.
Sinuous connectivity is the tendency for individual lithologic units to be continuous over long and highly contorted paths; there is no means in the earlier modeling of either characterizing or synthesizing this property.
He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case, in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling, rope-biting contortions.
This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by his writhing, unnatural posture. A Study in Scarlet
Headed up by choreographer Moses Pendleton, this troupe of dancing illusionists and contortionists have been known to mesmerize.
Her mouth was contorted in a snarl.
Friedlaender felt uncertain about the term ‘Baroque,’ preferring to point out its viability as an alternative to the contortions and non-normative aspects of Mannerism.
Going by the contortions of your average rock band, music is a painful and terribly serious duty.
He contorted the document out of its proper meaning.
It grows on the stem or on the top of the cap of the _Collybia_, and it is white, or yellowish, very much contorted (gyrose-plicate), nearly rounded, and Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Edward stood back, his expression contorting slightly as he watched the young couple discover the sky. ALONE With You
One or two are so contorted that poor old Lawson, who is a consummate professional, looks like he has been compelled to chew on a tough piece of sirloin and then spit it out in public.
His face was contorted with anger, as if he was going to rip my head off. Times, Sunday Times
The principal forest-trees are hemlock, spruce, and Nootka cypress, with a few pines (P. contorta) on the margin of the meadow, some of them nearly a hundred feet high, draped with gray usnea, the bark also gray with scale lichens. Travels in Alaska
Furthermore, the New York Times heaps blame on Republicans for the trouble health reform is in now, not on the design of the reform that Americans are loudly and clearly objecting to — which is the height of contortionism. New York Times Editorial Urges Dems to Walk the Plank, Alone - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
My lord was smiling, so the auctioneer prattled on, and the deformed creature upon the catasta wound his ill-shapen body into every kind of contortion, grinning from ear to ear, displaying the malformation of his spine, and the hideousness of his long hairy arms, whilst he uttered weird cries that were supposed to imitate those of wild animals in the forest. "Unto Caesar"
Her expression contorted as she watched the bound assassin being removed from the room. Drowning World
The contortionist woman was probably the most fun; lairy as hell with the best ‘orgasm face’ I've ever seen.
She looked like a limp doll, contorted and abused and violently flung aside.
Gavino’s face whipped in their direction and his expression contorted into one of loathing. Highborn
Like a traditional circus, there are jugglers, trapeze acts, tumblers and contortionists.
In the hot summer months, the carnival would travel into the city, full of gypsies and fire breathers, mages and contortionists.
My mom's face contorted with a combination of tension and mischief, as if the mom side of her wanted to shield me from the news, but the yenta side of her had to share this life-changing gossip.
Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
The statement is cut short as the blind man draws his sword underhand, drives the point into his damaged right foot, and contorts his body with torso straining into a ninety degree bend. Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.
His face appeared quite contorted. Times, Sunday Times
It seems like the last six episodes were one huge contortion just to get to the “and that planet was … EARTH!” ending. The babbling about the end of Battlestar Galactica…
His face contorts in pain, and his right arm clutches his heart.
Despite having a solid base, the rod is still contorted wildly beyond belief.
On came the red-haired monster, his face contorted with rage, his sword humming as it again began its death-promising sidelong cuts through the empty air. The Woods Out Back
Given the Bushes 'penchant for contortions and distortions of facts and for presenting themselves as carbon copies of the Immaculate Conception, one has to wonder what the true nature of that aid's impulse to gather such material during Poppy's presidency for a later book writing really was; one also wonders what wrangling may have taken place behind the scenes prior to the birthing of this book by Doro? Isn't it scandalous--the Bushes thirst for Power & Self Advancement? Yes. Of Course it is!
A spasm of pain contorted his face.
Certainly not ghastly Bartoli with her thin, quivering sound and facial contortions, and definitely not Gilfry with his tight baritone pushed beyond the bounds of vocal beauty for the sake of (near) audibility. Ain't It a Pretty Night
His skin is pale and greyish, and his hands painfully contorted by years of rheumatoid arthritis.
It's called melisma, and most of the contestants on this overblown karaoke-thon simply can't resist contorting their high notes into some pseudo-gospel, neck-vein popping vocal run that's supposed to make everybody in the studio audience shit their pants out of sheer wonder. NewWest.Net All Headlines
Mitchell also said he did not anticipate contortionists having any specific problems with their bones as they age.
And restricting ourselves only to PIE and internal reconstruction of PIE, I've also already stated that a deictic postclitic with added support from real-world languages which do the same sufficiently explains the marked nominative in PIE without contorting the entire declensional system to eke out an ergative suffix so that you can fantasize about Hurrian links. Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
They never did make any sense and were often contorted versions of a day at the orphanage.
Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the The Carter and the Carpenter
A loud, piercing scream escaped her as she saw his face contort into a wild look of determination.
Opium is smoked everywhere, at all times, by men and women, in the Celestial Empire; and, once accustomed to it, the victims cannot dispense with it, except by suffering horrible bodily contortions and agonies. Around the World in 80 Days
At times the scribes contort their prose into uncomfortable postures to avoid the hazards of personal prediction.
The musclemen who balance each other upside down on their shoulders; the acrobat who spins inside a hoop; the contortionist packed into a suitcase: these are the things that draw the audience applause.
His body twisted and contorted under a hail of bullets.
Don't unclothe your heroine, then contort her thighs and torso in an unnatural attempt at modesty.
Instead, they make torrid love in Maria's apartment, a supremely erotic scene that finds rapture in the contortions of Morton's face.
Belizean, I admire your moral contortionism to keep gays from legally marrying each other at all cost. A Belated “Screw You” from the Clinton Administration
Oh this reminds me of a contortionist trying to untie himself after finding itself contorted. AT&T’s Slowing Down on U-verse
Already on standby are a contortionist, a freaky burlesque dancer and a ‘hanging skin guy.’
My teeth have been capped and bleached to sparkle with a false warmth when I contort my features into what you call a smile.
His little face would contort in pain every time he coughed or sneezed, and he was suffering quite badly.
Monstrous, contorted shapes -- those Monterey cypresses look like creatures born underground, who, at the price of almost unbearable torture, have torn through the earth's crust, thrusting and twisting themselves airward. The Native Son
I thought at first that getting out of bed before my eyes are fairly open and turning myself into a circus actor by doing every kind of overhand, foot, arm and leg contortion that the mind of cruel man could invent to torture a human being with, would kill me before I had been at it a week, but when I read on page sixteen that as soon as all that horror was over I must jump right into the tub of cold water, I kicked, metaphorically speaking. The Melting of Molly
Athletes contort and bend in unnatural positions.
It was the closest work in the program to classical exposition, danced in front of the curtain on the apron, where bends are not really contortions and twists owe something to Yoga.
Her face was contorted, twisted almost beyond recognition in agony.
Fortunately, however, the book is much more than a tale of the shameless arrivisme and social contortions of an outsider determined to be accepted by the British upper class.
He danced back toward Bent Nose, grabbed his wrist and underwent some kind of contortion, twisting and turning as he dropped to his knees on the floor. Conan the Indomitable
Like other feats that seem both hugely difficult and absolutely pointless -- contortionism, for example, or Steven Seagal movies -- the first response to this one is "why? Happy Leader, Happy Nation
One had visible sores and the other had a facial tick that regularly contorted her little face. Times, Sunday Times
Saturn's F-ring is being twisted into its contorted shape by the gravitational effect of the moon Prometheus.
In our hour-long chat, there are no dramatic outbursts like those that infuse her stage show, no facial contortions or funny impressions or nasty vernacular.
Chris instantly let go, his face contorting with pain, a yelp flying from his lips; a second later he hit the floor as Jake's father shoved him roughly.
This isn't Vegas, it's more artful -- from the solo sand painter who opens Act II, to the smooth contortionist modern breakdancer, to the shapes of the shadows on the walls of Radio City. Rita Houston: Cirque du Zarkana: Not Your Father's Rock Opera
Albertson's recent paintings in both oil and gouache continue to feature contorted, hyper-eroticized figures enacting portentous traditional scenes amid the most vulgar trappings of popular culture.
Hunger, misery, degeneracy and the ravages of age were personified, and estheticized, in sculptures of anguished, contorted figures.
Must have been comical watching me hipping the pack against the tree so it wouldn't fall, grabbing my bow, and drawing all contorted. Anybody have any good "oh $hit" moments when distracted while hunting?
In another work, a cabaret contortionist with marcelled hair smokes a cigarette and reads a book in an improbable state of repose.
The material is heavy, but shows no quartz; whereas the smaller valleys which debouch upon the northern or right bank of the main line, display a curious conformation of the “white stone,” contorted like oyster shells, and embedded in the trap. The Land of Midian
Brenner was breathing hard, his face contorted with pain.

How To Use Contort In A Sentence

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