writhe

“Oh no. Oh no. No, no, no, no, no,” Peyton Manning said as he watched Dart writhe on the ground while holding his knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

When athletes tear ACLs in other sports, crowds are used to watching them writhe on the ground in agony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Smith began to shake and writhe violently, in thrashing spasms and seizure-like movements, at about 7:58 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

The pitch appears to writhe and squirm, but I know it must just be a trick of the light.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Mr. Nichols moans and writhes on the ground.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

He twists and writhes against the police car, at times falling over on his side, as he waits 22 minutes for an ambulance.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2023

He writhes on the ground before being slumped up against a car, unable to properly sit up himself.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023

All kinds of pestilence writhes within raw turkey meat, and safe preparation isn't just a good idea — it's a must to keep everyone at the Thanksgiving table safe.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022

The river writhes around his calves, knees, thighs, and then waist.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

When Williams fell to the grass on the run with a noncontact injury on Sunday, the football world feared the worst as he writhed in agony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"It's all of ours first day," said a curator, re-assembling the artwork as it writhed.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

The anchors made the appropriate comments of shock and grief while I writhed in my seat wondering where all the various fire lines actually were at that moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

Piazza writhed on the ground with Kamara looking on.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

He wailed and went down, and Citra raced across the sand, leaped the hedge, and grabbed him by the shirt with both hands as he writhed.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Late last month, an Indonesia-based wildlife foundation shared footage showing an orangutan writhing on the ground on a palm oil plantation in West Kalimantan, one of Indonesia's hardest-hit provinces.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

There is no escape: Garbagemen find them in their shoes at night; or writhing in their arm hair; or embedded in their scalps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

As soon as Mahomes was left writhing on the ground and grabbing his knee late in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, it was clear he had sustained a serious injury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

When she refuses, Spears grabs the trimmer and clicks it on: “The extensions are hacked into lifeless scraps … the stray hairs curl on the floor like writhing snakes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien