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  • Mayella's face contorted, and I was afraid that she would cry again.   (source)
    contorted = twisted into an unnatural shape
  • Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization.   (source)
    contorted = twisted
  • Leye's face was contorted with anger.   (source)
    contorted = twisted into an unnatural shape
  • Ron's — or rather, Crabbe's — face was contorted with fury.†   (source)
  • They weren't the sort of thing that would raise more than an eyebrow today, but they were scandalous then — women in black stockings with pudding-shaped breasts spilling out over their gigantic brassieres, the same women with nothing on at all, in contorted, splay-legged positions.†   (source)
  • When she arrived she circled several times, her shape contorting as she passed behind and finished on his left in a sit.†   (source)
  • Perhaps realizing some contortion fantasy, my uncle was completely hooked on the Body Shaper.†   (source)
  • Chuck's face appeared, contorted and angry.†   (source)
  • Her face was still contorted with pain.†   (source)
  • His uncle's features were contorted with rage.†   (source)
  • Silas glanced down, his visage contorted in anguish.†   (source)
  • It is contorted with anger.†   (source)
  • It was the fear of the goat, released in the tiger's cage, when the tiger first looks up from its paws, begins to growl-Now the girl was in the room, her eyes wide, her face contorted "I should have known that you'd corrupt her," Rasheed spat at Mariam.†   (source)
  • The man was grimacing, his head tilted and sunk into his shoulders as he stared at me through contorted features.†   (source)
  • And his long face, stripped of its flesh, was still contorted in a silent scream.†   (source)
  • We all looked at him and his face contorted with confusion.†   (source)
  • I wondered if my father could hear me moving around, because he seemed to contort himself more tightly into a fetal position and to cover his eyes even more tightly— as if he feared my mother were coming nearer to him.†   (source)
  • Bud's eyes are closed, face contorted.†   (source)
  • It was made of string, but it had more contortions, ins and outs, twists and turns and dips and doodles than the brain of Albert Einstein himself.†   (source)
  • Erik's face started to contort.†   (source)
  • His face contorts.†   (source)
  • By November, my father had mastered what he called an "adroit hobble," and when Buckley egged him on he would do a contorted skip that, as long as it made his son laugh, didn't make him think of how odd and desperate he might look to an outsider or to my mother.†   (source)
  • The orchestra began to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" (as well as they could, anyway), and Fiona pawed the air above the planter, her face contorted in effort and concentration.†   (source)
  • Klaus cried out suddenly, his face contorted in anger.†   (source)
  • He grabbed it just as another explosion rocked the room, sending a huge section of the metal shelving crashing to the floor "I've never seen such a menacing bunch of thugs!" the Rat Man yelled, but his face was crazed, his mouth contorted into a wild sneer.†   (source)
  • He strutted and pranced in ridiculous contortions, for all the world like a clown in a village fair.†   (source)
  • Immediately, her body is seized by wild contortions and she falls to the ground in a horrible dance.†   (source)
  • Fateen's face contorted with disbelief.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she turned, her face contorted with pain, and said, "I don't want to be angry with you.†   (source)
  • The old man got up slowly, holding onto the door handle, his face contorted with pain.†   (source)
  • His face contorts into an incredible amount of relief.†   (source)
  • She coughed, and her face contorted in pain—or was she faking?†   (source)
  • A face contorted into a terrible scream; a dog leaping from the left, teeth bared; someone shouting, "Take her down!†   (source)
  • And the stage contorts and trees rise as the dream twists into something else entirely.†   (source)
  • His face contorts in agony.†   (source)
  • Some frowned while others contorted their faces to show their contempt.†   (source)
  • The dragon fanned its wings; they were what had made it appear so contorted.†   (source)
  • Lenar Hoyt's face contorted in agony as his hands raked at his chest.†   (source)
  • Then he slumped forward, into a crouch I recognized, and his pleasant smile slowly widened, grew, till it wasn't a smile at all but a contortion of teeth, exposed and glistening.†   (source)
  • One measure of his exhaustion was the fact that the contorted syntax he usually worked so hard to suppress had now resurfaced.†   (source)
  • With help from the campus SeeChange cameras, watchers were noticing her standing, stock-still, her face contorted into some raging, wretched mask.†   (source)
  • I only saw contorted faces on the pages.†   (source)
  • The girl and the woman seemed to be arguing, the woman's face contorting even more unpleasantly.†   (source)
  • PICKLES SQUASHES JAMS Mango Orange Banana Green pepper Grape Mixed fruit Bitter gourd Pineapple Grapefruit marmalade Garlic Mango Salted lime Then the gristly-bristly face contorted, and Estha's hand was wet and hot and sticky.†   (source)
  • Hekate howled, her face contorted into a savage mask.†   (source)
  • Another spasm of rage contorted Valentine's features.†   (source)
  • She glanced at Thalia, whose face was still contorted in pain.†   (source)
  • Her face contorted.†   (source)
  • In fact, I hardly saw the contorted bodies, because I was focusing on the faces.†   (source)
  • His shoulders heaved; his abdomen contorted.†   (source)
  • The contortions of her face as she moved her bowels deeply humiliated her.†   (source)
  • When he did not react she reached out and grabbed his scrotum and pulled until his face contorted in pain.†   (source)
  • Carrie looked up at her dumbly, face still contorted and working.†   (source)
  • His face, contorted, looked ready to cry, but even his tears were stopped by the knowledge of what he had done.†   (source)
  • He jerked it out using both hands, his face contorting in pain.†   (source)
  • Peter bowed his head, his face contorting.†   (source)
  • Moody jumped to his feet his face contorting into a demoniac rage.†   (source)
  • Its horses, goats, antelopes, zebras, speared through their spines with brass javelins, hung contorted as in a death rictus, asking mercy with their fright-coloured eyes, seeking revenge with their paniccoloured teeth.†   (source)
  • Her face contorts, and for a moment I'm afraid she's going to cry.†   (source)
  • Her face contorted, emphasizing every wrinkle.†   (source)
  • His mouth was contorted, his eyes already bloodshot.†   (source)
  • I been in some meetings where the table legs strained and contorted and the chairs knotted and the walls gritted against one another till you could of wrung sweat out the room.†   (source)
  • They froze into contorted shapes, with their chest cavities spread wide and their intestines hanging out and dripping red icicles.†   (source)
  • The seat was uncomfortable, and he recalled the Russian joke about how they were shaping the New Soviet Man—with airliner seats that contorted an individual into all kinds of impossible shapes.†   (source)
  • Manx is leaning into the man but the man pushes on past, clumsily, every step a contortion and a labor, and Manx is fazed once more—he was just getting set to make a major statement.†   (source)
  • "I thought you said your parents were abroad…… " Ann's face contorts and I know she's going to cry.†   (source)
  • He turned pale and contorted his face, and I'm pretty sure it meant, "I can't believe I came here with you.†   (source)
  • They rock back and forth and their faces get all contorted.†   (source)
  • Fredi simulated having a seizure, contorting himself and shaking violently.†   (source)
  • The first time I saw him, he was doing knuckle push-ups in the exercise yard, face contorted with anger and pain, blood pooling on the asphalt beneath his fists.†   (source)
  • I let go of the cup and she takes a mouthful while I watch her face contort at the bitterness.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae's face contorted, and the words sounded like they were being wrenched from her throat.†   (source)
  • I saw her white hand clutching at his sleeve, and I could see his chest heaving for breath and his face contorted the way I'd never seen it.†   (source)
  • He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission.†   (source)
  • He bowled two of them aside in his lunge for the nickel-plated microphone, his eyes glittering wildly and his beefy face contorted with stress.†   (source)
  • Her face contorted in anguish.†   (source)
  • I do not know if he saw me, or if the light cut off his vision, but I saw his bitter, contorted grin.†   (source)
  • His face contorted oddly as he said it, and Tereza had trouble deciding whether he was sneering, making advances, or joking.†   (source)
  • The Devil had shown himself in Sister Anjali's purple, contorted death mask, but God had allowed that.†   (source)
  • His stomach was empty so they were dry heaves, but they watered his eyes and contorted his body.†   (source)
  • Laughing in fear and embarrassment, some were holding back and scooping up the coins knocked off by the painful contortions of the others.†   (source)
  • The woman's sharp, creased, middle-aged fade was contorted in frenzy.†   (source)
  • Like Adams, indeed like every member of the Massachusetts delegation, Gerry was a Harvard graduate, a slight, birdlike man, age thirty-one, who spoke with a stammer and had an odd way of contorting his face, squinting and enlarging his eyes.†   (source)
  • One time, when Grandmother was adamant about Mommy not allowing my brothers and me to play the game Twister for fear of us contorting ourselves into bone-snapping positions, Mom rolled out the plastic sheet and played with us the moment the front door closed.†   (source)
  • In the corner, a neat stack of American magazines features page after page of luridly sculpted men in contorted poses.†   (source)
  • Stunned, Barbara protested from behind the gag, contorting her face in an effort to twist the tape and free her mouth.†   (source)
  • His face was contorted with rage, and he swept one hand down and picked up a chunk of asphalt.†   (source)
  • Slowly, Cooper's ruined features contorted into a sort of smirk.†   (source)
  • Here streams of people were coming from several directions, women and children and men with frightened eyes and contorted faces, all running down this hillside to the valley, and up the next hillside toward the school.†   (source)
  • It's like holding up a flagpole with my arms contorted.†   (source)
  • They saw towers that looked like contorted skyscrapers, bridges hanging in mid-air, and sudden wounds spurting fire from out of solid walls.†   (source)
  • Luciana sat rigidly by her father, her face contorted into what reminded Alessandro of the expression of a soldier trying to judge the direction of hostile fire.†   (source)
  • On the ground, bodies missing heads, legs, and arms are sprawled in absurd contortions, a gruesome reminder of what close-quarter combat will yield.†   (source)
  • Its head contorted weirdly, and a gout of blood and brains poured over its face from above its forehead.†   (source)
  • An anger Longstreet had never seen before contorted the old man's face.†   (source)
  • He was looking at Misty now, his face contorted as he tried not to cry, a smaller darker version of his father.†   (source)
  • Miraculously, I kept my feet; but only by dint of superhuman contortions during which I was alternately bent forward like a skier going over a jump, or leaning backward at such an acute angle I thought my backbone was going to snap.†   (source)
  • Plunged like some writhing sea-shape into my gaping maw, it all but overpowered my senses as it sought some unreachable terminus near my uvula; it wiggled, it pulsated, and made contortive sweeps of my mouth's vault: I'm certain that at least once it turned upside down.†   (source)
  • The joyful caperings of Peter were nothing compared to the contortions the bush boy now went into.†   (source)
  • Vladimir breaks into a hearty laugh which he immediately stifles, his hand pressed to his pubis, his face contorted.†   (source)
  • The contorting moves he put his body through defy description and he is acknowledged by his peers as being the finest dancer on the island.†   (source)
  • He shouted something, and his face looked contorted.†   (source)
  • After a moment, though, she realized that he was not breathing; and his face, so contorted, underwent no changes of expression.†   (source)
  • The child gripped both hands together and made a contorted face as if she were strangling someone.†   (source)
  • He put out his hand as her face contorted.†   (source)
  • His snub-nosed face became contorted and he stretched out his neck.†   (source)
  • With a contortion of the face which terrified her he slapped his hand through the air at her as if she had been a mosquito.†   (source)
  • Then he was on his feet, turning, blind, his face congested, contorted with this rage, and the muscles leaping and swelling in his long, dark neck.†   (source)
  • Rod watched them, his face contorted in an agony of indecision.†   (source)
  • His face was contorted.   (source)
  • Cracking loudly, the corpse's face rotated into view, contorted in agony.†   (source)
  • The black shape withdrew, leaving the warlock lying contorted on the marble floor.†   (source)
  • I glanced up at him, and his face was contorted in what could only be pain.†   (source)
  • Her face contorted with pain, but her eyes remained as fierce and insistent as ever.†   (source)
  • 'Gone?' said Filch, his face contorting with rage.†   (source)
  • "I certainly did," said Snape, his face contorted with fury as he strode back to his desk.†   (source)
  • At the mention of my name, Peeta's face contorts in effort.†   (source)
  • Maia's face was contorted into a grimace of pain.†   (source)
  • Brom's face was contorted; the edges of his beard were stained red.†   (source)
  • His face was contorted, smeared with dust and smoke, and he was shaking with rage and grief.†   (source)
  • Hoyt looked directly at the Consul and made a contorted gesture with his right hand.†   (source)
  • Johanna's face contorts, and I mimic her, to see what it feels like to have my face that way.†   (source)
  • Madam Pince was swooping down on them, her shrivelled face contorted with rage.†   (source)
  • My arms swung through the air; my face contorted in a sort of agonized grimace.†   (source)
  • Hissing, shrieking my name now, as their bodies contort in rage.†   (source)
  • Why had he engineered that contorted journey from city to city?†   (source)
  • The girl squeezed her eyes tight, her face contorted with pain.†   (source)
  • Langdon contorted, trying to get his own feet beneath him.†   (source)
  • Peter's face contorted, and he tried in vain to speak.†   (source)
  • Lilly's face contorted in pain, and Clarke reached for her hand.†   (source)
  • Malfoy's mouth contorted involuntarily, as though he had tasted something very bitter.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," I said, looking up, my face contorted.†   (source)
  • The youth's face contorted with fury as he advanced.†   (source)
  • On the floor of the van, contorted in agony, lay a naked man.†   (source)
  • Ron's fist was drawn right back, his face was contorted with rage; he was about to strike again.†   (source)
  • Her face contorts in an odd expression and she flies into action.†   (source)
  • He screams, his face contorting, and drives the heel of the gun into my jaw.†   (source)
  • His face was contorted in a grimace; his fists were clenched.†   (source)
  • The older man's face contorted in a mask of horrified recognition …. and disbelief.†   (source)
  • Imogen— The Inquisitor's face contorted.†   (source)
  • His scarred face, contorted into a look of utter terror, was still recognizable.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon's visage now contorted into a mask of absolute grief and regret.†   (source)
  • His face contorted as he grappled with Durza, yanking on his sword arm.†   (source)
  • Isabelle knelt down and drew the Silent Brother's brown wool hood down to cover his contorted face.†   (source)
  • First shock, then anger contorted the Shade's face.†   (source)
  • Peter's tear-streaked face contorted now with anguish and disbelief.†   (source)
  • The Urgal's face contorted with terror as he exploded in a flash of blue light.†   (source)
  • Can't… Wilhelmina Wyatt stands among the headstones, her face contorted with fury.†   (source)
  • Then Luke saw Ethan, and his face contorted into a very inhuman smile.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sikes reappeared, his face contorted in anguish as he clutched his arm.†   (source)
  • Stop this!" as his face contorted in pain, the ice racing up his chest and over his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Her face contorted with miniature earthquakes and mudslides.†   (source)
  • Lilith whirled away from Jace and advanced on Simon, her hard face contorted.†   (source)
  • Leo's unconscious body contorted in pain.†   (source)
  • My stomach was contorting strangely and I thought my voice might crack.†   (source)
  • Round, jovial features contorted into an amused grin as he offered Max a courteous bow.†   (source)
  • He winced, his eyes closing, his face contorting.†   (source)
  • And as each pair of eyes looked up in shock, the faces were contorted with panic.†   (source)
  • His face contorting, Richard held back Singer with one hand and began reaching for the gun.†   (source)
  • I will never forget the look on Ian's face, contorted with my pain.†   (source)
  • Loring answered, the shoemaker's parchment face a mass of contorting lines and grooves.†   (source)
  • "Hello, Magnus," he said, his face contorted with misery.†   (source)
  • Jeremy wailed again, contorting his face even more.†   (source)
  • Gargoyles jutted from every corner, their snarling faces contorted.†   (source)
  • Her face contorts, a subconscious effort to make itself less beautiful.†   (source)
  • He turned his head, his features contorting like he was about to sneeze.†   (source)
  • Lindsey let loose a chirpy laugh and contorted herself to kiss her boyfriend sweetly on the neck.†   (source)
  • The picture shifted to capture Jeremy's rendition of an anguished guest, his face contorted.†   (source)
  • Now I contorted myself, linking an elbow around a knee, just to fit in its small space.†   (source)
  • For a moment, the small boy's face contorted in anger.†   (source)
  • His face contorted in mock rage as he grasped Regis by the shoulders and hoisted him into the air.†   (source)
  • For execution? whispered the Chinese, gasping, his face contorted.†   (source)
  • Richard loosened his grip as his mouth contorted in pain.†   (source)
  • Her face is contorted, her teeth clenched.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, his face contorted with shame and disgust.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen faces contorted into such expressions–not on my kind.†   (source)
  • Our bodies contort around each other as we roll in the mud around the wash basins.†   (source)
  • He saw the blood trickling down Brian's cheek, and his mouth contorted.†   (source)
  • The cry tore through contorted lips that dripped with frothy saliva.†   (source)
  • Gillette rose bodily off the seat, his face contorted.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ward could not define the emotion that contorted Rearden's mouth as he spoke.†   (source)
  • He pounded the wheel, his face contorted in fury.†   (source)
  • Her face contorted suddenly, as if she were straining to hear me over a sudden noise.†   (source)
  • Through my tears I saw his face contort into a hate-filled, terrifying grimace.†   (source)
  • His face was contorted by pure, unadulterated fear.†   (source)
  • She turned to me, the anger and bloodlust contorting her face.†   (source)
  • Murtagh looked up at Eragon, his sweat-beaded face contorted with pain.†   (source)
  • Alex said nothing; his face contorted in a silent scream of rage, fear, and humiliation.†   (source)
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