contort

Example Sentences

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I feel that if we continue to contort ourselves to the unique needs of every person who visits us, then we’ve lost our autonomy in our own home.

From Washington Post

K.D. was still ranting on the sidewalk, banging his hand against a fence, contorting his fingers into the shape of a gun and then firing it off at the sky.

From New York Times

Confronted by those long arms, Edney had to contort his body around Grimm to get off a shot above his fingertips.

From Los Angeles Times

As Pádraic reacts, Farrell contorts his face as if he was going through all five stages of grief.

From Salon

Among the many documents of that is his “War and Peace,” a work contorted through forced revision into strident propaganda.

From New York Times