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  • Riddle was writhing and twisting, screaming and flailing and then-- He had gone.  (source)
    writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
  • Then, suddenly, he was in the Annex room again, writhing on the bed.  (source)
  • One, carrying a doctor's bag, quickly limped on crooked legs to the side of the writhing doorman.  (source)
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  • A few days later, Esperanza heard a terrible scream from one of the women and several writhing gopher snakes slithered out of a crate.  (source)
    writhing = moving in a twisting manner
  • I writhed and twisted in the heat, with swarms of ants and flies crawling over me, while the poison oozed and crusted on my face and arms and back.  (source)
    writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
  • Will's father noted the muscles cord along the arms, roping and unroping themselves with a writhe like the puff adders and sidewinders doubtless inked and venomous there.  (source)
    writhe = twisting or contorted motion
  • He writhes in pain and quickly rips them from his face.†  (source)
    writhes = moves in a twisting or contorted motion
  • They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave-girls' breasts and derived gratification from their screams and writhings.†  (source)
  • I knew I should clean it more thoroughly, maybe with dish soap, but looking at Luke, the way he was writhing on the grass, I didn't feel I had time.  (source)
    writhing = moving in a twisting manner (in pain)
  • His body writhed in agony.  (source)
    writhed = twisted in an unnatural way
  • He managed to writhe over and hide his face against the wooden back of the settle.  (source)
    writhe = move in a twisting or contorted motion
  • Steam mists and writhes around the room.†  (source)
    writhes = moves in a twisting or contorted motion
  • On the one hand I possessed enough of a sense of humor to be aware of the ludicrousness of the contortions and writhings her very existence inflicted upon me.†  (source)
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