All 16 Uses
writhe
in
Call It Sleep
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- Her face was writhed back in disgust.†
Book 1writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
- There was always a place for it to land no matter where he ducked or writhed or groveled.†
Book 1
- He remembered them still, yes, but they were tiny now, little pictures in his head that no longer writhed into his thoughts and stung him, but stood remote and harmlesssomething heard about someone else.†
Book 1
- His lips writhed back and his words battered against the barred teeth.†
Book 1
- I thought that before that dog saw the last of me, I'd make him writhe.†
Book 1writhe = move in a twisting or contorted motion
- With writhing lips, he reached his left hand behind his back, fumbled in the right rear pocket and drew out his black leather pocket-book.†
Book 1 *writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
- He writhed inwardly at his own impotence.†
Book 2writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
- The street quaked and roared, and like a tortured thing, the sheet zinc sword, leapt writhing, fell back, consumed with radiance.†
Book 3writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
- A cold sweat sprang out over his face and throat, and his writhing body grew suddenly hollow and agonized.†
Book 4
- "Where are they?" he muttered through writhing lips.†
Book 4
- There was a kind of pleasure then in hearing another howl, in watching another beaten, seeing the naked flesh squirm and writhe and the crack of the buttocks tighten under the biting thongs.†
Book 4writhe = move in a twisting or contorted motion
- The writhing face above it turned.†
Book 4writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
- Once more his anguished eyes beseeched the window, and then a fit of horrible rage convulsed him and he writhed and beat the wall beside him.†
Book 4writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
- A nd he writhed without motion in the clutch of a fatal glory, and his brain swelled and dilated till it dwarfed the galaxies in a bubble of refulgence-Recoiled, the last screaming nerve clawing for survival.†
Book 4
- The writhing dipper was now almost consumed.†
Book 4writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
- The man in the wires writhed and groaned, his slimy, purple chicken-guts slipped through his fingers.†
Book 4writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
Definitions:
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(1)
(writhe) to move in a twisting or contorted motion -- often of a person when struggling or in pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)