noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some bills go through numerous legislative contortions before they are approved.
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the involuntary contortion of muscles
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Torrence dances with the lithe contortions of a cobra.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By a contortion of semantics he led the so-called Liberal Party.
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He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case, in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling, rope-biting contortions.
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His thin body was rigid and they could see the contortions of his facial muscles beneath the skin.
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I went to a gory pile of dead human forms in every kind of stiff contortion .
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It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary.
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One contortion flows into another, each stunt is more beautiful than the last.
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Two wounded people, he will joke during their nightly contortions.