Sample Sentences for
contort
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    Mayella's face contorted, and I was afraid that she would cry again.  (source)
    contorted = twisted into an unnatural shape
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    A few seconds later, her face contorted in anger.  (source)
    contorted = twisted
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    The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. "please," he gasped, "take some of the pain."  (source)
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    He let me walk out first, of course, but then I didn't know which direction to walk down the hallway, and so I just stood there outside the elevator and he stood there, too, his face still contorted, and I said again, "Okay?"  (source)
    contorted = twisted
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    He strutted and pranced in ridiculous contortions, for all the world like a clown in a village fair.†  (source)
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    Even Hitler, who had been contorting himself in concert with the athletes, was watching him.  (source)
    contorting = twisting or bending
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    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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Hissing, shrieking my name now, as their bodies contort in rage.†  (source)
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    And the stage contorts and trees rise as the dream twists into something else entirely.†  (source)
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    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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Latterly he had seen only Life, felt only the great passionate pulse of existence, unwarped, uncontorted, untrammelled by those creeds which futilely attempt to check what wisdom would be content to regulate.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontorted means not and reverses the meaning of contorted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I blink a few times and focus as hard as I can on the only face I can see. It is contorted with anger.  (source)
    contorted = twisted in an unnatural way
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    The contortions of her face as she moved her bowels deeply humiliated her.†  (source)
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