How To Use Writhed In A Sentence
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Then your soul writhed in derision, you scoffed at that which you had held to be the nobility of the soul, and you minced words satirically over the exquisiteness of the type which we have evolved.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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I miss this bed when I die lie me here in this bed~ where I died a thousand times before where I saw stars and danced and stretched and writhed and sang and swore and called out to a god oh yes ... this bed where
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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She squirmed and writhed and twisted, genuinely this time, but she was small anyway, and Sarah was strong, and so she wasn't going anywhere.
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His soul cried out in protest at the very thought, yet even as it did, another part of him writhed in self-contempt.
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The ensuing horn blast was loud enough to stun even the Elves, who immediately clapped their hands over their ears and writhed in discomfort.
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Twisting convulsively, it rolled down into the road under our horses 'feet, -- and there this human form, which some call godlike, writhed and floundered like a severed worm, and disguised itself in blood and dust.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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Alaine screamed once and her body writhed, and then Tris felt the tortured spirit within wrest free of her prison.
EXCERPT: The Blood King by Gail Z. Martin
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His other arm held her remaining hand to the wall also, and she writhed, kicking weakly at him.
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I twisted and twitched and writhed, but they wouldn't let me go.
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And what appeared to us worthy of remark was, that whereas, when a snake was decollated, it was only the tail that continued to wriggle -- when a _worm_ was divided, _all_ the segments writhed in the same way, and manifested an equal irritability; showing the difference between creatures of annulated structure, according as they have or have not a _brain_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
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Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters.
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The gentleman was as diligent to do justice to his fine parts, as the lady to her beauteous form: you might see his imagination on the stretch to find out something uncommon, and what they call bright, to entertain her: while she writhed herself into as many different postures to engage him.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant
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With a soft, empyreal hiss, it saw itself sucked up by the thorns, until only a last wisp of noxious vapor remained to show where it had once writhed.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
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The entire sky writhed in agony above him, split by gigantic forks of lightning flashing between the clouds.
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The dancers writhed, wrapped in yards of cloth on top of rostra that made them look like some kind of pole dancer.
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writhed lips
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But were there ever any writhed not at passing joy?
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She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
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A glance over his The Conquering Sword of Conan shoulder just as the door was closing showed Conan the long dim vista of the hall, and dimly framed at the other end an ophidian shape that writhed slowly and painfully into view, flowing in a dull-hued length from a chamber door, its hideous blood-stained head wagging drunkenly.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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The prisoner writhed in discomfort
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And what appeared to us worthy of remark was, that whereas, when a snake was decollated, it was only the tail that continued to wriggle -- when a _worm_ was divided, _all_ the segments writhed in the same way, and manifested an equal irritability; showing the difference between creatures of annulated structure, according as they have or have not a _brain_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Groaning silently, the two Berzerkers writhed on the ground as the tendrils encased them in cocoons.
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He clutched my upper sleeve tightly and writhed in his agony for a while before finally stammering a few words.
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They writhed their dry skins upon each other, as snakes like doing in lovemaking, with the added novelty of caressing soft, smooth, moist human skin.
Everyone Was In Love
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A line of pain sheared through his torso, driving him to the floor, where he writhed, scrabbling at his back.
Excerpt: Eldest by Christopher Paolini
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The slaves writhed under the master's whip.
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She writhed on the ground until medics came rushing to her aid.
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He twisted and writhed in pain, his anger rising.
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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The tortured girl writhed, twisted and tore agonizedly at the thongs which imprisoned her wrists.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
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The serpent looked at the poised egg, and he trembled and writhed so that his black scales scattered everywhither scintillations of reflected sunlight.
Figures of Earth
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Within its wide and crumbly confinement, the virgin Missouri writhed like a captive snake.
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While this was being done, and the wretch was twisting his body in every kind of contortion as he writhed under the blows, the procession by chance was following after him.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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‘Things never change here on Walton Mountain,’ I narrated brightly, stepping over Joe's body, as he writhed comically on the floor.
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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She let out a mighty wail from the pain, and writhed around on the ground.
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Gentleman was as diligent to do Justice to his fine Parts, as the Lady to her beauteous Form: You might see his Imagination on the Stretch to find out something uncommon, and what they call bright, to entertain her; while she writhed her self into as many different Postures to engage him.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
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Mr. Tickels writhed beneath the sarcasm, and turned deadly pale, although he and his tormentor were the only persons present who comprehended the secret meaning of the words -- for Fanny was too much engrossed in conversation with Argyle, to heed the remark.
Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life
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The Scot writhed and wiggled as much as his constraints would allow, trying to escape.
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Evelyn's body writhed, trying to escape her sister's insane tickling motions.
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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The Gentleman was as diligent to do Justice to his fine Parts, as the Lady to her beauteous Form: You might see his Imagination on the Stretch to find out something uncommon, and what they call bright, to entertain her; while she writhed her self into as many different
Spectator, April 13, 1711
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But Polly's was like the mad and lawless ceremonial of some heathen temple where incense arose and nautch girls writhed.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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Derek squirmed and writhed, trying to breathe.
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I felt its coarse hairs prickle my neck ... Smell of wet earth ... My belly writhed.
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Then the three writhed together in a swaying tangle, struggling, sliding, and falling into the arms of their mates on the crosstrees.
Chapter 21
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The vine twisted and writhed in the ring of lamplight, like a dying snake.
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He writhed at the memory, revolted with himself for that temporary weakness.
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Taibhsear watched in awe as the great body writhed and twisted, and a new egg fell to join the others.
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Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
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She squirmed and writhed and twisted, genuinely this time, but she was small anyway, and Sarah was strong, and so she wasn't going anywhere.
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Yellow, red, and blue flares darkening to deepmost purple twisted and writhed around there, raw energy disciplined and held in check by immense unseen forces.
The Howling Stones
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Stretching along the front of the stall was a tank of murky water in which a tangle of long, dark eels writhed.
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Whenever the hoax was spoken of, Judge Harvey writhed with personal humiliation, and with anger against the person who had recalled his discomfiture, and with a desire for vengeance against the perpetrator of the swindle.
No. 13 Washington Square
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For a moment, he screamed and writhed on the floor as the intense pain coursed through his mind pushing him to the edge of unconsciousness.
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By the marked reduction in the -- Brachiopods compared with the now richly developed Gasteropods and -- and sinupalliate -- Lamellibranchs," -- it writhed and twisted before his dizzy eyes.
Little Eve Edgarton
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Fedorov writhed from his attacker's grip and sprang to his feet.
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The snake writhed and hissed.
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Then the queen was nigh out of her wit, and then she writhed and weltered as
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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She writhed her hands till here fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
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I twisted and twitched and writhed, but they wouldn't let me go.
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The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake.
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He tumbled to the ground, writhed around on the dirt and covered himself with dust.
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Miles writhed and twisted as pain wracked his body.
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They were told of how these sinners writhed and danced to their wicked music in an unholy reverence to their false idol.
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They restrained the man as he writhed and gibbered.
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Jilkes writhed inside his flashy suiting, cracked his bony knuckles and looked up at the ceiling, as if for inspiration.
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