writhing
Example Sentences
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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
Moments later, the cat lays purring and writhing on the ground until it "dies".
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024
James Garfield’s assassination in 1881 involved 79 days of writhing medical purgatory.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2024
His writhing and flailing, verbally as well as bodily, serve as the 11 o’clock number.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024
It jabbed at a place near the roots, and at once, the writhing tree became still.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing writhing
Stargirl
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The Dragonet Prophecy
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