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writhing

[ US /ˈɹaɪðɪŋ, ˈɹɪθɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪðɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
    wiggly worms

How To Use writhing In A Sentence

  • He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence. The White Man's Way
  • The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
  • They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language. WATCHING: District 9
  • The bar is a seething mass of bodies writhing to the disorienting beat.
  • If you are going to disrupt a good party and if you are stupid enough to fall out of a tree I want to see you writhing pain.
  • A jagged chasm ran across the cavern, and on the other side of the defile was a writhing sea of furred flesh and sharp teeth. Curse of the Shadowmage
  • Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern. My Tropic Isle
  • Victims were vomiting, writhing in agony and screaming that they felt their heads were about to explode. The Sun
  • There are players writhing around in agony yet television replays showed there was absolutely no contact.
  • Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
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