contortionist

Example Sentences

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“I don’t know how it got under there. It must be a contortionist,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, thanks to social media, he has begun to establish himself as a professional contortionist and is training others to do the same.

From BBC

Dark Harbor featured carnival rides, contortionists, roller skaters preforming stunts, food and drink booths and haunted mazes, including tours through the belly of the 86-year-old ocean liner.

From Los Angeles Times

The moral contortionist act — replete with that craven allusion, without credit, to Martin Luther King, Jr. — would have almost been impressive if it weren’t so utterly depraved.

From Los Angeles Times

Cortes is a contortionist who thrives on disruption, an oddity among the creatures of habit that baseball breeds.

From New York Times