writhe
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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
But if you’ve put decades into watching this band, you deserve to see what this incarnation can wrench and writhe into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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
One day about noon, Odorny Nimmer, the sixty-first day of the journey that bland blind nothingness about us began to flow and writhe.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Gilded Age” embarks on its third season as America writhes in what many believe to be its death throes.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
Late in the film, Eugenia writhes in apparent agony over a pillow that is too hot.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
Through a hole in the circular set, an elevator rises with various set pieces, and most notably, the hospital bed on which Prior writhes in agony, and where he’s nursed by Justin Weaks’s marvelous Belize.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
He writhes on the ground before being slumped up against a car, unable to properly sit up himself.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023
Pop spins, falls, and writhes on the floor.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It came, it saw, it occasionally flopped and writhed on the grass, but it truly conquered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It's all of ours first day," said a curator, re-assembling the artwork as it writhed.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
But after the play, Davis fell to the court and writhed in pain, holding his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2024
A trainer checked on Messi, who writhed in pain on the pitch, but he remained in the game.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
But as the servant lifted the fish, it writhed and twisted, jumping out of the servant's hands.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
Sixteen hours after Tatum was writhing on the court against the New York Knicks, he was stretched out on O’Malley’s operating table on the West side of Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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
The ghost of Gaga past re-emerges for Perfect Celebrity, writhing with camp energy in a shallow grave as she sings about the pressure and torture of stardom.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Shohei Ohtani was on the ground, writhing in pain after he was caught stealing second base in the seventh inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024
A single sweep, and a third of it lay, a writhing heap of thorns, in a pile twenty feet away.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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