All 4 Uses

writhe
in
The Graveyard Book
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The Sleer writhed angrily, twining around the tiny chamber like ghost-smoke.†
p. 116.4

writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
She wanted to see that Owens kid, who she blamed for everything that had happened to her so far, writhing in miserable agony.†
p. 205.8 *

writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
NO. Bod felt the Sleer writhing through his mind.†
p. 251.1
He could sense the Sleer writhing and expanding, hear a noise like the scratching of a thousand dead twigs, as if something huge and muscular were snaking its way around the inside of the chamber.†
p. 283.1

Definitions:

(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)