contort

You don’t need to contort yourself to fit into someone else’s life, especially if that life doesn’t align with who you are or what you value.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

This is a book of endless storytelling, as characters contort themselves to please the regime’s shifting narratives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

When it was retired last year, it was replaced with a newer, fully electric model developers said could contort its metal frame in even more ways.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

With a swarm of dancers all wearing the same gray uniform, they contort their bodies around her, creating a collective spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025

I grab my collar and try to contort my neck to see it.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

The same grin can look menacing or jovial, depending on how Thatcher contorts the rest of her features.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Nevertheless, a cheeky portion of blue-green paint contorts itself into a standing position in the corner, fighting against the weight that urges the rest of the work Earthward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

We can literally see it in the shape of the jet stream, which now regularly contorts into deeper waves than it did just a few decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

Throughout every production, Curry contorts his voice for each character Man, Mooncakes and Monet meet.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Then she laughs—a gleeful, inhuman, full-throated laugh that contorts her body into unnatural angles and positions.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

There is so much that the public doesn’t know, and even more that can be contorted by disinformation and colloquial slang, making these important subjects the butt of the joke.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Ibrox contorted itself as the goalkeeper performed heroics and then the place let out a guttural groan as Hatate made it third time lucky.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

So, where did a baseball-loving future MLB star growing up in Sherman Oaks come to such a contorted conclusion?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

“I actually find him really small and contorted and tortured.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

His face was contorted with rage; Ranofer had seldom seen him look more vicious.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I have watched videos of people doing cold plunges, giving themselves ear massages and contorting themselves into impossible stretches all in the name of fixing dysregulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

But it’s also how she presents in the world of modeling, hooked up to wires, contorting her body to emulate a snake and sprawled across a hospital bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

Images of Vance have sprouted up on X contorting his face into that of, well, everything you can imagine.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025

In recent years, women have posted videos of their faces contorting in pain during an IUD removal or insertion to demonstrate how painful they are.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

The iron was contorting, twisting itself out of the abstract curls and coils into a frightening face, which spoke in a clanging, echoing voice: “State your purpose!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling