CONTORTION


Meaning of CONTORTION in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Some bills go through numerous legislative contortions before they are approved.

the involuntary contortion of muscles

Torrence dances with the lithe contortions of a cobra.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By a contortion of semantics he led the so-called Liberal Party.

He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case, in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling, rope-biting contortions.

His thin body was rigid and they could see the contortions of his facial muscles beneath the skin.

I went to a gory pile of dead human forms in every kind of stiff contortion .

It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary.

One contortion flows into another, each stunt is more beautiful than the last.

Two wounded people, he will joke during their nightly contortions.

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