contortions

Example Sentences

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American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The contortions of so many travelers bending, crouching, and hopping alongside the metal detector lent comic flavor to the plane journey.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2025

All of those candidate contortions bring to mind a line from Hamlet: To thine own self be true.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024

They were going to have to answer the question with a straight yes or no, with none of the complex contortions.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover