Sample Sentences forwrithe (editor-reviewed)
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The patient writhed in pain.writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
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She writhed on the sidewalk begging that someone call an ambulance.
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I walk to the center of the arena and my guts writhe as Peter comes toward me, taller than I remembered, arm muscles standing at attention. (source)writhe = move in a twisting or contorted motion
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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
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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
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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
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Then, suddenly, he was in the Annex room again, writhing on the bed. (source)writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
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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
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And now again the music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever, (source)writhe = move in a twisting motion
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Steam mists and writhes around the room.† (source)
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A new patient, a teacher named Popov, a gaunt, silent fellow, who now sat at the Good Russian table next to his equally gaunt, silent young bride, turned out to be an epileptic and right in the middle of a meal had a violent fit, falling to the floor with that demonic, inhuman shriek we have all often heard described, and lay there next to his chair, flailing arms and legs about in the most ghastly writhings.† (source)
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One, carrying a doctor's bag, quickly limped on crooked legs to the side of the writhing doorman. (source)writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
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His body writhed in agony. (source)writhed = twisted in an unnatural way
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The Darkness seemed to seethe and writhe.† (source)
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He writhes in pain and quickly rips them from his face.† (source)
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A little orchestra in red jackets was playing under the direction of a Czech or Hungarian violinist, who stood apart from the rest among the dancing couples, belaboring his instrument with ardent writhings of his body.† (source)
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