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Examples of writhe
writhe
She actually watched him writhe in agonizing pain for five days before he died.
From the forbes.com
Everyone knows Robin Hood loved to get nekkid and writhe in his Merry Men's laps.
From the tv.uk.msn.com
An association with the verb writhe was the etymology favored by J. R. R. Tolkien.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Screaming, I tried to writhe away from the several nurses who were holding me down.
From the usatoday.com
Our dread builds, but we are no less astonished when he starts to choke and writhe.
From the guardian.co.uk
She makes immense cold phallic serpents writhe into the moonlight, sleepily.
From the time.com
Jocko managed to writhe out of his harness, intent on working the trap door himself.
From the kentucky.com
The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain.
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His teammates watched the Cardinals celebrate and Howard writhe in pain.
From the stltoday.com
- To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
- (writhed) contorted: twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"- Walter scott
- (writhing) wiggly: moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; "wiggly worms"
- In knot theory, the writhe is a property of an oriented link diagram. The writhe is the total number of positive crossings minus the total number of negative crossings.
- In a "relaxed" double-helical segment of B-DNA, the two strands twist around the helical axis once every 10.4-10.5 base pairs of sequence. Adding or subtracting twists, as some enzymes can do, imposes strain. ...
- The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot; To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring; To wrest; to distort; to pervert; To extort; to wring; to wrest; To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to ...
- (writhing) A twisting struggle
- (writhed) turned, twisted, wrenched as if in pain or suffering
- To twist, as in pain, struggle, or embarrassment. To move with a twisting or contorted motion.
