How To Use Twisted In A Sentence

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But his police career ended in a welter of accusations that in order to obtain results, he hadn't just bent the rules, he'd twisted them out of shape.
This camp and sassy pop track comes complete with bitter and twisted lyrics and a hint of europop. The Sun
Around the humerus, loose where once it had clung tightly, lay the twisted semi-circle of a priestly arm-ring. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
By then though, it was too late and the story had been twisted so far out of recognition that the forced references to things like Namek, Oozaru, and Roshi's pervertedness just seemed out of place and stupid. Anime Nano!

A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
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.
He peered down into her tearful face with a twisted smile, reaching up to brush some of her wildly cascading hair from her cheek. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
Toledo'sdistinctive twisted streets and covered passageways evoke thecity's golden years as part of the Arab Empire.
It looked very old and traced with lacy patterns of swirls, vines, and flowers, but it wasn't just white or just black; it was a twisted mixture of both black and white.
The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
One of the most interesting novelties of the volume was the so-called ‘moving trihedrals’ for twisted curves as well as surfaces so freely used in writings of Darboux and others.
He grabbed a fistful of that lush cashew-colored hair that made Pink Jenny so popular, twisted her arm behind her in a vicious half nelson, and dragged her up to my face.
What kind of twisted logic was used to make that look a good idea? Times, Sunday Times
Sturges was also quick to spot the feral intensity of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine's brutal boorishness, using them to give Bad Day At Black Rock its seething core of twisted hatred.
The dough is twisted into a rope-like strip and pelletized into small lumps.
It should be clear by now that Jackson has been royally twisted by the trifecta of supernova fame, seemingly unlimited cash, and a profound loneliness - none of which he asked for.
There is the inevitable small, unvisited museum, with its obsolete heavy American machine guns and twisted bits of aeroplane.
It was a butterfly, its wings made from fine strands of gold twisted together until they formed this delicate creature, so fine it seemed almost transparent.
His investigation reveals a twisted labyrinth of deception and betrayal, with remorseless vixen Kitty Collins at the center.
I cannot accept that; it is an incredibly twisted argument to make.
If you have ever looked at a network cable you will notice that the wires are arranged in pairs, and are twisted together.
It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo.
Amusing, instantly likable, and whip-smart, he's in possession of a life so unconventional and fantastical, it's more twisted than fiction.
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She pitched forward, twisted and ended up on the infield grass, in tears.
Stunted, twisted growth and oddly distorted flowers are the symptoms of aster yellows, a disease which often shows up in midsummer.
His expression twisted into a grimace as the bone dust began to fly. Harvest
The road twisted and hairpinned and climbed, but as scary mountain passes go, it was pretty tame.
she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted
If that doesn't cause the ovary to die, it can be untwisted surgically to save the organ.
The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old THE SEA FARMER
A true oddity, it's a film about some twisted racketeers involved with a travelling carnival.
Violent death and loss have taken the life of this once powerful businessman - twisted it, broken it and turned it inside out.
The twisted logic was inadvertently summed up by agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire, a loyal Sarkozy lieutenant, with the words: "When they remove all the pork from a restaurant open to the public, I think they fall into communalism, which is against the principles and spirit of the French republic. The Guardian World News
Another mode of making a springe, which is a capital plan for catching almost any bird, whether it be a percher or a runner, is this: Procure an elastic wand (hazel or osier makes the best) of about 3 ft. 6 in. long, to the top of which tie a piece of twisted horsehair about 3 in. in length; to the free end attach a little piece of wood of 2 in. in length, by the middle, cutting one end to an obtuse point, flattened on the top and underneath. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
The car was a wreck of twisted metal, but they could see the driver, still inside, trying to extricate himself from his situation.
He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw. CHAPTER X
His face twisted in a parody of smile as he hoisted the grenade launcher.
The experience had left her bitter and twisted.
The dart at her window speaks of no twisted fantasy.
Your excitement was infectious as you laughed and gasped as we were whirled and twisted.
And he is being made to pay for that honesty and candor now that his statements are being twisted.
Truly nasty, one can see that these films also operated as some kind of twisted porn for neo-Nazis.
Sheldon grabbed a piece of wood, twisted her body around and hit the man square in the face.
I left my hair the way I usually keep it, twisted in sections kind of like dreadlocks.
Taibhsear watched in awe as the great body writhed and twisted, and a new egg fell to join the others.
Make a twisted cord or use a ribbon, and lace it through the eyelets.
Fans will enjoy the aptly titled A TWISTED LADDER as the heroine ponders nurturing vs. naturing with her DNA and her childhood tainted in this terrific refreshing character driven thriller. A Twisted Ladder-Rhodi Hawk « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away.
Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway — pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown. Our Mr. Wrenn
Ten metres from the line I saw Ray, twisted to dip and strained my hamstring.
I'll take twisted or wrenched at a push. Times, Sunday Times
So I may be a cynical, hysterical, psychotic, twisted masochist.
The thread is twisted by attaching loose strands to the top of the spindle, then rolling the spindle along the thigh to start it spinning.
He twisted and groped one-handed behind the cantle of his saddle for his hunting-bow and quiver, found them and fumbled them loose.
She had twisted her ankle and was limping.
In addition, many children suffer from poor eyesight, cuts and perforations on their hands and twisted fingers.
Loved the twisted ending and the spidered windshield. EF 5 • by J.C. Towler
A jury in Canada has found three members of an Afghan family guilty of drowning three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". 'Honour killings': Canadian jury finds Afghan family guilty
Some wore T-shirts with the Star of David twisted into Nazi swastikas.
Some species reverse torsion, but evidence of having passed through a twisted phase can be seen in the anatomy of these forms.
The Platinum Pied Pipers have taken music and twisted and scrunched it into Triple P to produce a refreshing, multi-talented, many-layered masterpiece of modern music.
And dark and twisted and sad. Times, Sunday Times
Everywhere there are stone pillars, some fluted, some twisted, some many-sided.
Now all that remains is a twisted burnt out shell.
His face twisted into furry and his hands clenched into tight fists.
She felt angry at how the journalist had twisted her words.
It appears to be cut from a large bivalve and does not have the twisted shape of a whelk or conch columella.
Boots with soft uppers and minimal ankle support can see you with twisted ankles should you slip and jam your foot in a crack.
She fell and twisted her ankle.
In this close - up the DNA is seen as a long twisted molecular ladder, the double helix.
Whole families went about with crooked legs or twisted shoulders. The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
There are carriages on their side, bent and twisted and there are bogies [wheels] all over the place.
Beneath the cartoon graphics lurks a series of puzzles so fiendish and ingenious that only a twisted mastermind could think of them. Times, Sunday Times
He looked at me, then my bike, and without returning the gesture, twisted the throttle to blast away.
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I had longed for that twisted suffusion of cells, that genre of lovemaking that only our kind can do. Magic X
Woronov's prose occupies bizarre territory, somewhere between twisted lyricism and hard-boiled pulp fiction.
To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
Some are twisted like phone cords; others have sharp flexures from buckling.
They seemed to be made of solid stone, but were inlaid with precious red and purple stones that formed arcane and twisted designs.
Imagine a wide lanceolated blade of a vinous purple, some twenty inches in length, which is twisted at the base into an ovoid purse about the size of a hen's egg. Social Life in the Insect World
In attempting to play the shot, Lehmann twisted the injured left knee which he already had strapped and he obviously did further damage.
Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony.
This has all the usual features one might expect in a cave - hundreds of stalagmites, stalactites and even helictites (strangely twisted stalactites).
You may never usually watch such lowculture television but, trust me, the twisted ending they've dreamed up is jaw-dropping.
It sounded as if a boot had been planted through a partition wall and was now being twisted and flexed. Times, Sunday Times
The former exhausts itself first in fantastic lacertine forms, twisted into the shapes of the commencing letters or words of the writing, to which the suggestion of some Byzantine MS, perhaps occasionally adds a frame. Illuminated Manuscripts
Nowadays, Ethernet runs over shielded and unshielded twisted pair copper, coaxial, and fully EMI-resistant fiber-optic cable.
a harvest of new plants in the garden; for the rose-trees, emaciated with leaflessness, had each a shadow that twisted on the earth like ground-ivy or climbed the wall like a creeper. The Judge
We will defeat their poisonous and twisted ideology. The Sun
To this, the little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace.
The 21-year-old runner twisted his ankle in a training session last Friday.
Max swore as he twisted the lock-pick in the keyhole impatiently, but the lock still refused to oblige.
He fell heavily and twisted his ankle.
Seth sighed and twisted himself to face me directly.
He tried to jump over the rail,but he botched it and twisted his ankle.
There is no cheery speech, no overlapping dialogue, no badinage, no heartiness - real or false - almost no voice raised in anger or twisted in sarcasm.
Being clear, and always conscious of whether my words could be twisted, was really important.
Some might say it is a very twisted mind - but I am sure the public will decide.
Toledo'sdistinctive twisted streets and covered passageways evoke thecity's golden years as part of the Arab Empire.
Paul twisted, swivelled, danced and turned his way through some desperate tackles before pirouetting over the line in a mesmerising display of balance and control.
Martor's ferretlike face was twisted into a quite uncharacteristic smile. Sun of Suns
Footage of the crash site showed the front carriages twisted and torn open by the force of the accident. Times, Sunday Times
So if you imagine the cochlear being wound, it's sort of shell-like, it's not a straight system but what you've got to do is insert it as you might indeed a twisted shell like a snail and the further it goes in presumably the better the sound.
She has the mobile, expressive face of an intelligent, successful woman: but her limbs are helpless, twisted with painful spasms.
Clearing twisted a shoe on his way to the post and caused a 15-minute delay while a farrier made the repair.
Some species undergo reverse torsion (‘detorsion’), but evidence of having passed through a twisted phase can be seen in the anatomy of these forms.
Stoke's biggest threat until twisted ankle. The Sun
The festival is based upon the story told in the Book of Esther, a tale of humorous and melodrama parody of palace intrigue, in which the brave Queen Esther and her uncle, Mordecai, save their people from the twisted genocidal plot of the wicked vizar of Persia, Haman. Archive 2006-11-26
They have twisted and deformed historical facts to serve their own purposes.
The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
What they say'A funny and engaging look at the most twisted and naked branch of the entertainment world. Times, Sunday Times
To loosen or separate ( something twisted ) by turning in the opposite direction; unwind.
Running a candle flame up and down a twisted piece of dry hair. Times, Sunday Times
The vine twisted and writhed in the ring of lamplight, like a dying snake.
Of this much I'm certain - Down will be absolutely furious when I tell him that his words have been twisted in this way.
Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the Mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
The horn is OK appreciably ground is twisted upcountry, should inspect try audition effect actually to decide.
He smiled in a twisted manner, sauntering into the study.
With its overbearingly charismatic, slo-mo vocal, chomping techno stabs and Roland 303 squiggles twisted into tight new party balloon shapes, this is raw, unbridled fare from a label that's kept up the dark, crunching, nasty end of the dancefloor spectrum for over two decades. This week's new singles
Only two priests appear in the film, one a twisted corpse mutilator and the other a villain whose strategy for defending Jerusalem is to convert to Islam and leave the people to die.
What better venue, then, to sink a pint with Black Box Recorder, Britain's leading brewers of twisted pop music?
She twisted her mouth in a cry of sheer ecstasy and bit hard on her lip.
If you're bored with Hollywood blockbusters and want a change from feel-good schmaltz, then I'd recommend this twisted family fairy tale.
Many dark and bright threads are slowly twisted together.
They twisted and turned down winding maze paths, never being able to tell if they were lost or going on the right path, blindly guessing.
The glittering threads of rivers twisted their way to the sea and Hayes could just make out the lighter wash where they discharged sediment.
This is partly because the hip must be dislocated and, thus, the vein will be torqued and twisted to prepare the femur for the implant.
This wasn't any alien habitat, where even geometry might be twisted out of shape.
I go into mass-production here, using a fork made from strands of fencing wire twisted together at one end and spread open at the other to form a circle of prongs.
twisted into monstrous shapes
Adopt a stance with the head erect, neither hanging down, nor looking up, nor twisted.
Suddenly the snake twisted.
A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted.
He shook his head and a look of sorrow twisted his rugged features.
Peter laughed, his voice sounding harsh and ugly, and his mouth twisted into a sardonic sneer.
The table napkin found its way into Mei-Feng's hands and had been twisted and turned into weird shapes.
They are twisted masses of tiny filaments or fibers inside nerve cells.
Michael twisted painfully out of the way and swung his sword left-handed in an awkward but powerful arc.
She twisted the loose tendrils of my hair around her fingers.
Using the methods open to me at the time, I had a choice between fiber optic cable or UTP unshielded twisted pair cable. Utp Transmission | Surveillance
She absently twisted her wedding ring.
Nicholas twisted the lever past the detent and slowly slid it down to the OPEN position.
A variety of snakes twisted and slithered across his shoulders down to his fingertips as if they had a life of their own.
Such hags were ugly, with massive twisted features and great strength.
And just when I had got it nearly ashore, by the very place where you are sitting, on that shelving bank, young man, the line broke, and the perch twisted himself among those roots, and -- cacodaemon that he was -- ran off, hook and all. My Novel — Complete
As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
Long and thin, the latter hang like a magical forest or are curved and twisted into puppet figures of varying sizes. Times, Sunday Times
I twisted my hair up in a knot and suddenly, in the soft light, felt quite beautiful.
When dried and untwisted the creases gave the effect of masses of small pleats.
Pizza, for me then, is sort of a twisted, backwards culinary interpretation of the hotelling phenomenon. without going back to econ 100A with professor olney, i’ll just say that it doesn’t really matter what pizza tastes like because i’ll just go to the place that will “minimize the average traveling costs.” Pizza is like sex - victor jr.'s in culver city
Fabrics made of yarns that aren't tightly twisted, such as gabardine, are particularly prone to shine. When Suits Suffer from Wear and Tear
One boy has a tray displaying battered curios salvaged from the area - American name tags, medals, twisted knives and forks.
A strange burning in her legs reached up to her stomach and twisted her insides.
For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The wrestler twisted his shoulder
Students on two of the teams based their catapults on older designs called mangonels and onagers that used the tension of twisted ropes to store the energy used to propel the tennis balls. Medieval Technology and Culture class at the University of Southern Indiana
His craned neck twisted away and he snuffled again. Arcane Circle
The car was now just a pile of twisted metal.
Alex twisted both of his swords up into a self-protective X position and waited for the blow Zack would deliver.
Across from these tiny slippers is a case that displays the evolution of the corsets and brassieres that have twisted and shaped the female figure to reflect the ever-changing ideal of what women should look like in Western culture.
I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the process .
The only clue to the blast was a small twisted piece of metal. Times, Sunday Times
She had no makeup on and her long fair hair was twisted into a knot on top of her head.
I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
This one had manoeuvred itself into an exposed position and was climbing in a laboured manner up a twisted, dry vine that was coming away from the tree.
Beginning with this line, Shelley continued his writing on the opposite side of the address panel; from here on, the repair to the worn fold is along the right-hand edge of the text, where the damage does affect the final letters of some words. line 32. twisted: though 1989 reads this word as "twirled" (and emends twisted in the final text to "twirled" as a possible typo), the crucial letters seem to us to be st. line 36. humans: Shelley canceled the terminal "s" in his draft. line 41. bond Street beau (sic). line 42. Annotations
A plant with aster yellows develops weak, yellowing leaves and twisted or distorted stems and flowers.
Mission furniture mixed with Adirondack twisted hickory and painted old pine.
Behind him was a deer with great horns that twisted and turned in every direction.
The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
His eyes flashed with anger and he grabbed Willis' wrist and twisted it behind his back.
She looked up at him as he twisted the two streamers together and taped them in a sort of upside down McDonald's sign above the window.
She blinked back sudden unexpected tears and twisted round uneasily.
They have to deal with a thousand different ways in which their words may be twisted and perceived by people they have never met and who have no desire to meet them.
He climbed down over her, and somehow she twisted enough to clasp her arms about his middle.
The wheel had been twisted out of shape.
He wore a button-down collared shirt; his locks had been neatly twisted and pinned back in a bun.
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The Spanish triller gets twisted when the scientist doesn't want this guy to interfere in this past tense for fear of severally messing up the future. Quick Stop Entertainment
She then called for her maid to do her hair, which ended up in elaborate curls, twisted and pinned around a pearl and sapphire tiara.
He was walking twisted to one side to favour his painful leg.
He untwisted the wire off the champagne bottle, and the cork popped and shot to the ceiling.
The pillars twisted around each other then spread out at the top to support a long, triangular roof that had strange runes carved into it.
It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees.
Amongst orchids, where the pedicel of the flower or the ovary is normally twisted, so that the labellum occupies the anterior or inferior part of the flower, it frequently happens, in cases of peloria and other changes, that the primitive position is retained, the twist does not take place, and so with other resupinate flowers. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
It succeeds admirably, while exulting in a twisted demonic aesthetic.
II. ii.12 (48,3) [sometime am I All wound with adders] Enwrapped by adders _wound_ or twisted about me. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
My left foot seemed to have been twisted in an odd angle.
I twisted to try and knock her hands away and ended up wincing as skin pulled and she pushed me back, rucked my shirt up a bit higher.
As Behr calls on old street contacts and his hard-boiled investigative skills, he is led deeper into a twisted society of organized crime and an unknown landscape of "pea-shake" houseslow-rent, transient gambling rings staged in condemned buildings around the city. Where the Dead Lay by David Levien: Book summary
During another, he tweaked and twisted a cameraman's ear. Times, Sunday Times
Speaking generally, the most common state of things in these flowers was the occurrence on the throat of the calyx, in the position ordinarily occupied by the stamens, and sometimes mingled with those organs, of twisted, ribbon-like filaments, which bore about the centre one or more pendulous, anatropous ovules on their margins. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
I twisted around and got to my knees before he was upon me again, wrestling me down.
He fell and twisted his ankle.
The boy twisted the top off the bottle.
The bike was just a heap of twisted metal.

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