How To Use Writhing In A Sentence
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He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence.
The White Man's Way
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The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
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They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language.
WATCHING: District 9
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The bar is a seething mass of bodies writhing to the disorienting beat.
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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.
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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
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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
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Victims were vomiting, writhing in agony and screaming that they felt their heads were about to explode.
The Sun
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There are players writhing around in agony yet television replays showed there was absolutely no contact.
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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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They drove away leaving the unfortunate Tiller writhing in agony.
A SEASON IN HELL
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His glass, in front of the candle, writhing flame visible through the clear liquid, illuminating the bubbles spinning and fizzing their way upward.
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He was left badly injured and writhing in pain.
The Sun
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It turned out to be an innocent farm truck, its elderly driver left writhing in the dirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken.
Menhardoc
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He lost his footing and fell to the ground writhing in pain.
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On the top floor, the dragon is in the air, with writhing translucent light-filled ceilings and walls curvaceously sculpted to make benches, cupboards and seats.
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I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan in The Life of Swift [3], which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as 'A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men; 'that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated.
Life Of Johnson
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Recently, a pony owned by a school management, was operated upon after the animal started writhing in pain.
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Where are the bodies writhing in synchronised agony?
Times, Sunday Times
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She then opens a lacquered wooden box on the silver tray and using a pair of long silver tongs extracts a writhing leech.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Oculogyric crisis, blepharospasm, respiratory stridor with cyanosis, torticollis, and opisthotonos can occur, as well as slow, writhing movements of the extremities.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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The protesters then carried her writhing body back towards nearby police and dumped her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Footage showed the man writhing in agony as the tigers passed him between them.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was obviously in great pain, he was writhing about.
The Sun
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Within ten seconds half a dozen Russian riflemen were writhing in the sand.
KARA KUSH
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As far as I can see, many Black wimmin, the descendants of these violated and disrespected slave wimmin are writhing in the grip of some serious erotophobia (scared of tha nasty).
1TBM
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There was talk of me writhing around in a pool of blood, but the costume designer just said no.
Times, Sunday Times
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Half of the country is writhing around wondering how to pay the mortgage and it's draining.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was not an angel capable of mutating into a writhing, biting snake on a soft mattress.
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Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY
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Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair.
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Off to a day of badgering and haggling in dark little storefronts full of stoppered glass bottles full of writhing mists.
Valentines, part the first
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The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury, making his way toward the land.
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He and four other senators were writhing in the glare of unfavorable publicity.
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Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
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Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo.
For the Sake of the Boy
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It was a baneful day writhing with the horrors of which nightmares are made.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
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The arena was ready, beyond was a writhing mass of blazered acned youth.
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Writhing around his neck with the scarf is a thin white snake.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
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Haaland was by now playing for Manchester City, and towards the end of a full-blooded game with United Keane launched a vicious, thigh-high assault that left Haaland writhing on the ground and Keane receiving another red card.
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He remembers the noise, the screams and then finding himself on the ground, writhing in pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The protesters then carried her writhing body back towards nearby police and dumped her.
Times, Sunday Times
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The woman lay writhing and twisting upon the hearth, struggling for breath through her bruised throat.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Minutes earlier, the room was writhing with flexing quads and pumping pecs.
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We hear him writhing in pain and singing to his mother and boasting about a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've seen one neighbor's cat writhing around on the sidewalk and yowling while my cat sunned his fat stomach in our driveway, unfazed.
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The woman lay writhing and twisting upon the hearth, struggling for breath through her bruised throat.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Horror footage showed him writhing on the ground.
The Sun
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Stories emerged of patients writhing in agony being ignored by staff or being told to return to soiled beds after seeking help.
The Sun
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A writhing mass of white snow-snakes hissed, crawling from hidden cracks and crevasses in the bifurcations of the cave-rocks.
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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
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She must have cried for another ten minutes, writhing in pain as she did.
Christianity Today
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The calm repose of a classical statue turns into something snakish and writhing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon enough, this partnership produced a vipers ' nest writhing with snakes practicing bribery, extortion, drug dealing, and murder.
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He was obviously in great pain, he was writhing about.
The Sun
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Even the dirty garage guitar sounds perfect writhing in a bed of electronica on ‘Accelerator.’
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The effect was like a writhing smiley face fashioned out of live leeches.
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It was a disturbing fall, his body writhing in spasms from the moment he hit the turf, his hands gesturing to the bench that he would play no further part.
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It certainly seems to be working for the dancers writhing around her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many people were packed into the crowded living room, their scantily clad bodies writhing to the beat.
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Horror footage showed him writhing on the ground.
The Sun
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The agent sits there, transfixed at the sight before him, and as the music breaks down they change position before it starts up again, once again writhing in and out in perfect sync with their soundtrack.
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She straightened -- her arms swept out and the writhing vine, with its tendrilled heads of ruby bloom, five flames of misty incandescence, leaped into the faces of the soldiers now close upon us.
The Moon Pool
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It was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated these glass or paste beads from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
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We throw the line out and almost immediately pull six gleaming mackerel out of the sea - silver and cobalt, jerking and frantically writhing.
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He was obviously in great pain, he was writhing about.
The Sun
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The shark was writhing around wildly, trying to get free.
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Where are the bodies writhing in synchronised agony?
Times, Sunday Times
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Waves arose like rolling cliffs and heaving mountains; the writhing column of a waterspout flowed upwards into a connecting arm of cloud.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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And he cannot bear to watch news footage of her writhing on the ground.
The Sun
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Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is, perhaps, the most interesting book I've read in a year .... and what sets my fanboy antennae writhing is that there are at least two other books set in this world.
Scenes From An Art Fair, Written After Seven Hours of Driving To CT
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Then, as Zal raised the poleax, Conan darted in under the blow, and the next instant Zal was down, writhing in his own blood and entrails.
Conan of Cimmeria
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We heard of the snakes of Australia, which workmen dug up in torpid writhing knots, in the cold weather ... of native corrobories which one old informant told us he had often attended, where he procured native women or "gins" as they called them, for a mere drink of whiskey or gin
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
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These include muscle spasms, writhing movements and rolling eyes.
The Sun
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And inhibition ratios of acetic acid writhing were 38.25±2.98 %, 57.82±3.04 % and 52.43±3.87 % respectively.
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I found myself writhing in my bed and moaning until my flatmate came to check up on me and brought me a hot lemon and honey drink.
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Nearly every one of Soutine's paintings signals the end of the world; and he flays and eviscerates his subjects—as if unleashing the writhing bowels of hell.
Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
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Her routine was uninspired writhing and undulating but her pole slide was something that Plato would have written a riddle about.
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A second lay on the floor, writhing and trying to pull the mask off his face.
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The dogs lunge forward, writhing in their desire to bound off into the forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Toshi was writhing on the floor, his golden-brown oculars full of agony for his sister.
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Sorry, Meghan, those of us who do not want to see a 12-year-old girl dressed in a wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime are not repressed and conflicted and hyperprotective.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The contraction was easing; she was no longer writhing upon the birthing stool, no longer gasping for breath.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Horror footage showed him writhing on the ground.
The Sun
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In ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’, the homunculus stares back implacably at the viewer, returning our gaze while apparently indifferent to the upturned, writhing nude male in a glass cage to his left.
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Writhing in pain with what later was called a cramp, Schneider needed help off the ice.
Chicagotribune.com - News
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I could have lived without Annie Sullivan's writhing and lavishly bruised and sore-pocked young brother dying noisily in her arms in the middle of the second act, but I'm sure she could have, too.
The Miracle Worker
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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
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Grim skulls taunt Mother Superior's mind, while a severely cowled Mary Magdalene in green eye shadow and come-hither lipstick holds court over a writhing succubus.
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The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
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It turned out to be an innocent farm truck, its elderly driver left writhing in the dirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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A loud gunshot is heard, followed by a speeding bullet that hit one of the male followers in the chest and, to their horror, see him writhing in pain.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JunoDagger’s Review Forum
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Somehow in my awful, writhing state I notice that he is wall-eyed.
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On the steps I stood still and looked round: long storm-clouds were creeping heavily over the grey sky; a dark-brown bush was writhing in the wind, and murmuring plaintively; the yellow grass helplessly and forlornly bowed down to the earth; flocks of thrushes were fluttering in the mountain-ashes among the bright, flame-coloured clusters of berries.
The Jew and other stories
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The year is 1998, and the group performs before an overflowing hometown hall of writhing, bouncing, pushing and skanking mop-haired kids and mod hipsters.
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She must have cried for another ten minutes, writhing in pain as she did.
Christianity Today
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Watching England writhing horribly against West Indies in Chennai this week was a strangely familiar experience, partly because it represented just another flaky layer in the crazed mille-feuille of the current World Cup campaign, and partly because I was simultaneously watching archive footage of England writhing horribly against West Indies 30 years ago to the day during the Barbados Test of 1981.
My Beef with England: if only we had an Ian Botham now | Barney Ronay
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a neigbours web aged wife pick pocketing wild passions seeing them come crashing down tall babeldom sky scraper longings once touching trembling doors of my beloved now writhing in death throes in a rubble
The Darker Side of the Moon « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
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The patient was writhing on the bed in agony.
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While these vibrantly hued python totes are nowhere near as slithery or deadly as Casati's writhing ornaments, they're sure to draw attention, especially when worn against the dark palettes favored in the chilly months.
Color Me Happy
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HD affects muscle co-ordination, often causing involuntary writhing movements called chorea, and it leads to cognitive decline.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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My issue is that I do not want a 12-year-old girl dressed in a wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime.
"Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness."
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Their tentacles writhing in agitation, none of the police turnedso much as a wandering eyestalk in the lone Vssey's direction.
Sliding Scales
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On the floor, others were writhing about caressing themselves, and others cavorted with speakers or the edge of the stage.
Fallin’ Up
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What might be called a writhing expression stole over him.
The Confidence-Man
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There I was writhing in agony on the floor and you lot were pissing yourselves laughing!
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Accustomed to the idle weight of my right hand to holding down a paper, my elbow now presumed to grind onto a shamelessly writhing, squirming sheet as I untiringly applied ink to its white plane.
A Disobedient Hand
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He was left badly injured and writhing in pain.
The Sun
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Captain Nemo alerted his companion to this hideous crustacean, which a swing of the rifle butt quickly brought down, and I watched the monster's horrible legs writhing in dreadful convulsions.
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Where open wounds festered, the flies were so thick as to make the wound seem to be a writhing metallic black mass.
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I'm not one of those paranoid moderns who thinks the world is covered in an invisible miasma of writhing disease; I know it is.
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I have felt like one of those poor rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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We are witnessing the last writhings of a society left beached by the march of history.
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Prometheus is bound in writhing shackles that reach up and clasp his arms.
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I stood and watched the most brilliant display of aurora I had ever seen, shooting over the mountain tops in the east like lava from a volcano, writhing overhead to the opposite horizon, snaking into crowns and shooting towards the ground like harpoons of light.
A Conversation with Lucy Jago, author of The Northern Lights
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As he lay writhing in agony on the ground, the owner refused to put the dog on a lead or hand over his contact details.
The Sun
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The snake was writhing in its death agonies.
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Half of the country is writhing around wondering how to pay the mortgage and it's draining.
Times, Sunday Times
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Witnesses said he was writhing in pain on the road with elbow and hip injuries.
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The dogs lunge forward, writhing in their desire to bound off into the forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her raven black hair was full and lustrous, reflecting the unpredictable writhings of the candle flames.
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A wave, higher than any they yet had had to ride, came boiling down upon them ... and twisting, writhing, upcasting imploring arms to the elements -- the implacable elements -- a girl, a dark girl, entwined, imprisoned in silken garments, swept upon its crest!
The Yellow Claw
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Footage showed the man writhing in agony as the tigers passed him between them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Daughtry, to behold his captain, frayed and bleeding and breathing apoplectically, Michael raging in ghastly silence at the end of a mop, and a large Persian mother-cat writhing with a broken back.
CHAPTER VI
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What was ittying on was that this starry ptitsa, very grey in the voloss and with a very liny like litso, was pouring the old moloko from a milk-bottle into saucers and then setting these saucers down on the floor, so you could tell there were plenty of mewing kots and koshkas writhing about down there.
Where's the show?
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It turned out to be an innocent farm truck, its elderly driver left writhing in the dirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Footage showed the man writhing in agony as the tigers passed him between them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next thing you know you've started shimmying your hips, thrown out your back and landed on the floor, writhing in pain.
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When a day shift nurse discovered the man in bed the next morning writhing in agony, she called an ambulance.
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From pupae writhing around in their cocoons and eventually emerging as brightly coloured butterflies, to unexpected characters such as snowmen and mythical sea creatures, the children will be transported to a world where imagination has no limits.
Undefined
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We hear him writhing in pain and singing to his mother and boasting about a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prevented from surfacing to breathe, the sea mammals drown while their skin is lacerated by the spines of writhing fish.
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It was the sort of roiling, writhing ancientness I expected.
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They present movies like this as cautionary tales but hope to rake in the dough from moviegoers who might buy a ticket precisely to see Dakota dressed in a "wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime.
"Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness."
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His color had gone from grey to milky white, and it was almost as if he were writhing in pain.
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Mentally, Mrs Stych felt as if she were writhing in her death agonies.
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In some ways, the writhing full-page illustrations are relief to the genre-scene frontispieces.
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In less than two seconds the Portal was open, a perfect circle, limned eerily by writhing feathers of blue coronal discharge.
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And as I glimpsed the generic fioricet that castigated of the writhing of fioricet on line beneath, I reflected a non-institutionalized chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my brand name fioricet had seen it.
Think Progress » Scott McClellan’s Daily Press Fleecing
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Without the aid of soy sauce or wasabi, our dishevelled hero sinks his teeth into the head of a live and writhing squid.
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‘There is more fun at Corke Lodge’ writes Jane Powers, The Irish Times, where ‘the "ancient garden" of box parterres is punctuated by melancholy gothic follies, and emerges eerily from the dense boskage of evergreen oaks, myrtles, and a writhing cork oak tree with deeply corrugated bark.’
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You have seen the sort of man I mean: to-day generous to his last plack, to-morrow the widow's oppressor; Sunday a soul humble at the throne of grace, and writhing with remorse for some child's sin, Monday riding vain-gloriously in the glaur on the road to hell, bragging of filthy amours, and inwardly gloating upon a crime anticipated.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Victims were vomiting, writhing in agony and screaming that they felt their heads were about to explode.
The Sun
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The flamelike dark cypresses, writhing olive trees, blaring oversize suns, convulsed mountains, and vortically churning stars of Van Gogh's visionary madness are not far off.
Determined Spirit
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The response consists of tentacular writhing and mouth opening and is similar to the feeding response seen in A. pallida.
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She could see some one writhing amongst the dusky fabric and she felt herself retreat involuntary to the safety of her bed hangings.
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He fell headlong into an enormous patch of writhing blackberry bushes.
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His mind was filled with thoughts of the peasants, the women, children, old men, and all the poverty and weariness which he seemed to have seen for the first time, especially the smiling, old-faced infant writhing with his calfless little legs, and he could not help contrasting what was going on in the town.
Resurrection
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As he lay writhing in agony on the ground, the owner refused to put the dog on a lead or hand over his contact details.
The Sun
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As he lay writhing in agony on the ground, the owner refused to put the dog on a lead or hand over his contact details.
The Sun
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The awful sight of the bloody lieutenant writhing around on the ground was enough to sober him up from his delusional state.
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For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him, — the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.
Chapter 12
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My shikari, writhing with extreme excitement, hissed, "Baloo, sahib, baloo!" and began aimlessly running to and fro, apparently hoping to meet the bear somewhere.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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However, the most controversial character is Kitten - a writhing mass of isms and chips on her shoulder.
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The woman lay writhing and twisting upon the hearth, struggling for breath through her bruised throat.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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An elephant, tired after searching for water, lies in writhing pain on a barren land.
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They almost oscillate between the witty and tragic, and I found myself laughing and then writhing with discomfort.
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She wanted to be angry at him for being so dratted in control while she was writhing and moaning, but it was hard to be angry when the most amazing feelings were rocketing through her.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Gibreel, with the Imam riding him like a carpet, swoops lower, and in the steaming night it looks as if the streets are alive, they seem to be writhing, like snakes; while in front of the palace of the Empress's defeat a new hill seems to be growing, _while we watch, baba, what's going on here?
The Satanic Verses
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There was talk of me writhing around in a pool of blood, but the costume designer just said no.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to contend with Thai-roasted pheasant with sweet yams and shitake mushrooms, balanced precariously on a writhing pepper and black bean sauce.
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Astragals, writhing and hanging heere and there, making the capitall thrise so big as the bottom thereof of the columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile or streight beame, the greatest part decayed, and many columnes widowed and depriued of their Capitels, buryed in ruine both
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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All that tearing down Don had been doing, ripping out cabinets, extra studs, lath and plaster, the house was writhing with the pain of it like having its teeth pulled, and now this, whatever he was doing, this new sound, the house was in _pain_.
Homebody
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a careful ear may catch some far faint echo even yet; the fearful and furtive yelp from beneath of the masked and writhing poeticule, the shrill reverberation all around it of plagiarism and parody.
A Study of Shakespeare
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We hear him writhing in pain and singing to his mother and boasting about a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was left badly injured and writhing in pain.
The Sun
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In its writhing poses, the Massacre, in particular, stands out as testament to Bonifacio's avant-garde enthusiasm for Mannerism.
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In a dark rocky cave, a giant octopus spread its long, writhing tentacles in search of its prey, and gazed the while through the water with large lustreless eyes.
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Male whites follow the writhing females, releasing their milt to fertilize the eggs.
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The contraction was easing; she was no longer writhing upon the birthing stool, no longer gasping for breath.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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I suppressed a shiver of disgust and fought down the feelings of triumph writhing in my stomach.
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She must have cried for another ten minutes, writhing in pain as she did.
Christianity Today
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The protesters then carried her writhing body back towards nearby police and dumped her.
Times, Sunday Times
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He remembers the noise, the screams and then finding himself on the ground, writhing in pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Footage showed the man writhing in agony as the tigers passed him between them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nodding in affirmation, Ex led her away from the pack and into the group of bodies writhing on the dance floor.
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A minute later, Whalen was down on the Value City arena court in Columbus, writhing with two broken bones in her right hand, her collegiate career probably finished.
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She was not an angel capable of mutating into a writhing, biting snake on a soft mattress.
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Her hair was messy from the writhing mass of bodies that had been the ‘dance floor,’ and the flyaway hairs seemed to catch the firelight and form a halo around her head.
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He gave no heed to her or her words, but remained like one impaled; still, fixed, yet writhing, his features, his whole form and expression discolored, distorted with inward agony.
The Missing Bride
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When he opened the door he found Sophie on the floor writhing in agony.
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It can cause athetoid cerebral palsy characterized by uncontrollable tremors or writhing movements of the limbs, body and face, hearing loss, problems with vision and teeth and, sometimes, mental retardation.
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Artistic images of snakelike forms capture the scaly, slithering, writhing shapes of snakes as they move over the ground or swim in water.
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You know, I really, really hate getting shot, and had I been in a position to do so (and not writhing on the floor bleeding slightly) I would have told Matty so, before inserting his pistol up his jacksie, sideways.
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I killed two before I realized it and their souls went to strengthen me, so that I moved with even greater speed, the sword writhing and turning in my hands like a living creature, killing, killing, killing.
The Dreamthief's Daughter
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Prepare to be baffled as much as you're battered: opening track 'Ostia' lays down fat, fuzzed-up beats that scream 'Rocket USA' or 'Ghostrider' (from the first Suicide album), for a dozen-or-so bars, before live cymbals gallop in, and then a full-kit with all the instruments writhing around them with a limberness and energy you'd think impossible for figures so intricate.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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He lay writhing on the ground, clutching his head in pain.
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It's hard to properly dramatize, say, the domestic effects of Dad's bank overdraft when a giant writhing kraken is levelling the city.
Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives
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I have felt like one of those poor rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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It certainly seems to be working for the dancers writhing around her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet that was the man I was destined to see stricken with fear a thousand times more hideous even than the fear that was mine when I saw that writhing abomination in Lottie Fairchild's hair, dangling over her eyes and the trap of her bodice.
Good Bye, Jack
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Half of the country is writhing around wondering how to pay the mortgage and it's draining.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sorry, Meghan, those of us who do not want to see a 12-year-old girl dressed in a wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime are not repressed and conflicted and hyperprotective.
"Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness."
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In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consquences attendant upon it, he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves.
Rogue Of Gor
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City's top scorer raced onto Alex Calvo Garcia's misdirected header but as he went to shoot he was tackled simultaneously by Russ Wilcox and was left writhing in agony.
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In early 1932 we encounter Johnson being driven to hospital, writhing in the back of the car with stomach pains.
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Mr Buckley said he went to comfort Mr Cox, who was writhing in pain.
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He was beaten until he lay writhing helplessly on the ground, whereupon his captors doused his body with kerosene and set it ablaze.
