How To Use Contorted In A Sentence
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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.
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Her face contorted with the pain but she wrenched harder, thinking of her freedom.
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His face was hideously contorted by rage.
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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
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A 1960s ranch calls for a contemporary garden with a sculptural plant, such as a Japanese maple or contorted filbert.
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Her expression contorted and she barked at the tall southerner's companion.
A Triumph of Souls
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He looked at me for a moment, his face contorted with pain, and reached out to touch my cheek.
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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.
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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
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A bedstead and a long-broken twin tub washing machine, hang together in this contorted web.
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I must have been a sight in my blood stained wedding dress and shoes that were still oddly contorted from the crash.
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Her face muscles contorted, her eyes turned black and her body began to undulate like a snake.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Her face is contorted with anguish.
The Sun
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Her face contorted with pain and shock as if she'd just walked into a lamp post.
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The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
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She's tall and gaunt, her face pale and contorted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, contorted, angular forms are selected.
Times, Sunday Times
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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)
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The contorted moonlet dropped away, dwindled, vanished.
I Don’t Understand ?
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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.
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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
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It was a deserted hallway, so I squeaked in alarm when she spun around a corner to face me, her face contorted in fury.
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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
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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
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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
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His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony.
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His face was contorted in agony as he tried to lift himself out of the chair.
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His face was contorted with fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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He found Pelagia, apparently paralysed into a contorted posture that had left her neck ricked backwards.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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His features contorted by more than the usual disfigurement, he was backing away, shaking his head.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
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Whiplash's head rolled away from her lifeless body, mouth contorted in a hideous grin.
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TB asked him after he moved through a particularly contorted portion of the tai chi exercise.
METAPLANETARY
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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I turn immediately to see her coming toward me, her face contorted in rage.
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With that he hurled himself out of the shop, his features contorted and congested with fury.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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His face, through the visor, was contorted in a weird grimace of glee as he brought the club down.
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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
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It was a contorted version of the truth.
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I worked to keep the wheel steady, watching as his lips contorted and then expelled a wet brown plug of used chaw.
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'Get out!' she shouted, her mouth contorted by emotion.
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His face was contorted with pain and the source did not seem to be his injury alone.
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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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..."
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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.
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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
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My daughters would then walk into the room and begin to weep, their little faces contorted with grief.
Christianity Today
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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
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The van driver from Croydon's face contorted and he began to weep as he was mobbed on stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Her mouth was contorted in a snarl.
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He contorted the document out of its proper meaning.
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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.
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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.
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His face was contorted with anger, as if he was going to rip my head off.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her expression contorted as she watched the bound assassin being removed from the room.
Drowning World
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She looked like a limp doll, contorted and abused and violently flung aside.
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Gavino’s face whipped in their direction and his expression contorted into one of loathing.
Highborn
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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.
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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His face appeared quite contorted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite having a solid base, the rod is still contorted wildly beyond belief.
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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
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A spasm of pain contorted his face.
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His skin is pale and greyish, and his hands painfully contorted by years of rheumatoid arthritis.
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They never did make any sense and were often contorted versions of a day at the orphanage.
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His body twisted and contorted under a hail of bullets.
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Oh this reminds me of a contortionist trying to untie himself after finding itself contorted.
AT&T’s Slowing Down on U-verse
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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
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Her face was contorted, twisted almost beyond recognition in agony.
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One had visible sores and the other had a facial tick that regularly contorted her little face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saturn's F-ring is being twisted into its contorted shape by the gravitational effect of the moon Prometheus.
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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.
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Hunger, misery, degeneracy and the ravages of age were personified, and estheticized, in sculptures of anguished, contorted figures.
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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?
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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
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Brenner was breathing hard, his face contorted with pain.
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Instead, contorted, angular forms are selected.
Times, Sunday Times
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The effects of systems may be quite different from their intended aims, which then leaves a contorted trail for the historian to uncover.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The racket loudened, muffled by houses and contorted alleys but unmistakable.
The Boat of a Million Years
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Most of them applied themselves to their exercise books, their faces contorted with intellectual effort.
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Looking at Tony Bevan's work almost makes your own neck ache, such is the empathy one feels with the contorted angles and distorted structures of his heads.
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TB asked him after he moved through a particularly contorted portion of the tai chi exercise.
METAPLANETARY
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But just looking at the way his face regularly contorted, I could see he was in agony.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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His face was contorted into a mixture of pain, anguish and despair.
The Sun
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This contorted, obscure language makes the poem a challenge, but it is also where its compelling power lies.
Times, Sunday Times
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He watched as the bucket of the backhoe was removed from the hole, revealing a contorted broken pipe sticking out of the bottom of the hole.
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A bedstead and a long-broken twin tub washing machine, hang together in this contorted web.
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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I saw what he meant by his face being contorted and how the tears flowed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face was contorted with anger.
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His features contorted by more than the usual disfigurement, he was backing away, shaking his head.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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The edge of the drop-off is punctuated by large formations of madrepores with contorted outlines.
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His face was contorted with rage.
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The chemistry doesn't just fail in this romantic farce, it blows up in their contorted faces.
The Sun
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Instead, contorted, angular forms are selected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slowly, his astonishment mutated into a face of contorted devilry.
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his mad contorted smile
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She grinned her contorted simper.
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The younger girl shook with anger, her face contorted in fury as she demanded Mrs. Opanir confess her secret.
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The teacher pivoted around on her heels and hatred contorted her expression.
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Despite having a solid base, the rod is still contorted wildly beyond belief.
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Her face contorted into an animalistic snarl, her muscles tensed, her concentration rose to a new acme, her blood raced, her hair stood on end, and her teeth gnashed together.
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_ The bungalow stands on soft, contorted, decomposing gneiss, which is still the prevalent rock, striking north-east.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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On the wall there are pictures of an Indian bloke contorted into various positions.
Times, Sunday Times
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It differs widely from L. elegans and contortedens, but resembles the otodus; but Prof. Gibbs remarks that they are more lanciform, and the core more slender than the otodus.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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Because the body is often contorted into new shapes, training is a particularly associated with picking up injuries.
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There are many belts of greenstone (highly contorted, Precambrian volcanics and sediments) throughout the Canadian Shield.
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Her long, black, uncombed hair falls over her normally cheery face, now slightly contorted with worry.
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Around the room sat his men, their faces contorted by years of fighting and poverty, dressed in shalwar kameez and magazine pouches, eyes dark as the kohl lining them.
Know Your Enemy | ATTACKERMAN
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When they finished they stayed where they were, contorted into some sort of acceptable form of non-physical contact with those around them, and slept as best they could on aged colored carpet trod on by millions before them.
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It is telling that this image is an explicit tribute to Titian's earlier masterpiece of the same theme (now in the Wallace Collection, London), and that the gracefully contorted pose of Andromeda is based on a mannerist sculpture by Giambologna.
Venice: The Masters in Boston
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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She's tall and gaunt, her face pale and contorted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joshua trees are monicots, grotesquely oversized lilies, with contorted limbs and trunks armored with spikes, which are used skillfully by the loggerhead shrike to impale its prey.
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His face was contorted in agony as he tried to lift himself out of the chair.
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Finally, a large urn containing a tall piece of dried contorted hazel was surrounded by monstera leaves, asparagus fern, Scots pine, palm leaves and larch branches.
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As he struggles to catch his breath, his face contorted in a grimace, he raises an outstretched palm to surrender.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look carefully at the contorted face in front of you and pick a peculiarity, say an unusual muscle twitch, poor dentition, bad skin, etc.
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The effects of systems may be quite different from their intended aims, which then leaves a contorted trail for the historian to uncover.
The Times Literary Supplement
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His face contorted with bitterness and rage.
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I started up at him with a fiery, angry gaze, and his face contorted in disapproval and disgust.
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She held him in a contorted hammerlock with his left arm behind his back.
A KING'S RANSOM
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No matter how she pieced them, they contorted into something unacceptable.
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Where others would use more flowery language to remain within the rhyming scheme and scansion they have set up, he can find simple ways to do it, so it doesn't become contorted.
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When is the best time of year to prune a contorted willow tree?
The Sun
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Their bodies were bloody, contorted and covered with wet leaves.
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I bend under contorted branches and let myself down by dropping two or three feet to the next foothold.
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A peculiar variety occurring as contorted concretionary masses is known as tripe-stone, and a scaly granular variety, from Vulpino, near Bergamo, in Lombardy, as vulpinite; the latter is cut and polished for ornamental purposes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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With his face contorted into a grin to crimple one's spine, with a voice to make one's knees buckle, he went up to Happy Jack and thrust that horrible grin into Happy's very face.
The Happy Family
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Everybody now wants to swagger into the departure lounge without their spine contorted by the sheer heft of their laptop case.
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I adelphia net webmail him of the myxomycota astrometry bounteousness and he acarpelous that it was one of the scholastically contorted cure of his neutralized tigris.
Rational Review
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I'm sure his contorted expression of awe and sadness was a sterling effort.
