contorted
Example Sentences
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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
When we see him finally being moved, he is contorted in his bed from the pain, clutching onto a sick bowl.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025
For more than an hour, I had twisted and contorted myself trying without success to get a grip on that two-inch piece of silicone.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024
“She bounded around with so many positions and backtracked and so desperately contorted ... . She is more consistent now than she was then.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024
One measure of his exhaustion was the fact that the contorted syntax he usually worked so hard to suppress had now resurfaced.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
