contortions
Example Sentences
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Arco Renz’s choreography of the students as they haunt the present day makes their distress visible through physical contortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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
While watching the final round in the Bahamas, Woods described Scheffler's unconventional footwork as "the contortions he gets into" but could not hide his admiration for the quality and control of the champion's ball striking.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
All that effort has earned him nearly 6,000 followers on Instagram and kept the restaurant open for five years — no small feat given the economic contortions of the last half decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Along the banks of the Wooded Island ice two feet thick locked Olmsted’s bulrush and sedge in cruel contortions.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
