contort

Example Sentences

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He tried to set his expression into “bravery in the grip of terrible adversity” but it was difficult with the wind contorting his face as if he were in a free fall without a parachute.

From Literature

A figure was walking swiftly past a top-floor window, and its face was contorted with anger.

From Literature

Coal took an early shower and contorted himself trying to extract the splinters from hard-to-reach places with a pair of tweezers.

From Literature

Acquiring the semiautonomous Danish territory would further elevate his claims to greatness and the status of legend in his own contorted reality.

From Salon

Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.

From Salon