verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Within moments the man had me writhing around in agony as he dug his hands into my feet, ankles and calves.
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He tumbled to the ground, writhed around on the dirt and covered himself with dust.
■ NOUN
agony
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Mentally, Mrs Stych felt as if she were writhing in her death agonies .
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Within moments the man had me writhing around in agony as he dug his hands into my feet, ankles and calves.
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Her hands twisted in the coverlet beside her head, and she writhed in an agony of pleasure.
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Police found the pair writhing in agony in the road.
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But soon after she was writhing in agony , her muscles racked with pain.
pain
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A patient who is writhing in pain may harbor an intra-abdominal catastrophe.
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He just curled up in a little ball and writhed in pain .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As he received each blow, he writhed on the floor and cried out.
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Sarah was writhing in agony, clutching her leg.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And even though the little fellow stood stock still, his shadow heaved and twisted as some living creature writhing in unimaginable torment.
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Changez lay writhing on the floor, unable to get up.
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I felt its coarse hairs prickle my neck ... Smell of wet earth ... My belly writhed.
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Like an invertebrate, she writhed on the floor, trapped in the ruin of her own body.
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Play was stopped twice in the first half as Estrada writhed on the ground in seemingly excruciating pain after making a save.
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They fell into bed, and then he was writhing under her twitching hair.
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Those struck down fell sprawling, unconscious or writhing with fractured skulls or broken shoulders....