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Example sentences for "writhe"

Lexicographically close words:
writer; writers; writes; writest; writeth; writhed; writhen; writhes; writhing; writhings
  1. Dale laughed sneeringly as he watched the young man writhe futilely in the hands of his captors.

  2. His soul was in the grip of a mighty rage against Dale and the others; he longed to come into personal contact with them--to feel them writhe and squirm in his clutch.

  3. I would storm and fume and writhe inwardly.

  4. They were homely girls, with pinched faces, yet at such moments they represented to me all that there was fascinating and disquieting in womanhood The jests of the foul-mouthed rowdies would make me writhe with disgust.

  5. What a delightful treat these passages must be to the rowdy Americans, and how the Duke must writhe under--what The Christian Advocate lauds as--the skinning operation of the renowned American champion!

  6. The whole hotel was in commotion, while the actress, with foaming lips, fell to the floor and began to writhe in fury, overturning the furniture and bruising her body on the iron trimmings of her trunks.

  7. He could make Alan Massey writhe trebly, knowing these things.

  8. Alan laid a hand on Tony's arm with a proprietorial air which made Dick writhe far more than his insulting manner to himself had done.

  9. Or is it that you think you would enjoy the exquisite pleasure of seeing me writhe and wriggle when you refuse me?

  10. But multitudes do slip off the paths of virtue, and helpless wives, and often helpless husbands and children, writhe from wounds made by those under sacred obligations to shield them.

  11. She saw with dilating eyes the trees on the distant mountain's brow toss and writhe in the tempest; she heard the fall of rain-drops on the foliage of the mountain's side as if they were the feet of an army coming to her rescue.

  12. They distilled slowly into the steward's ear like poisonous adders, and seemed to writhe in his very soul.

  13. He uttered no groan; neither did he sue for mercy; though the torture he was enduring caused him to writhe within his ropes, at the risk of their throttling him.

  14. The 'fairy' continued to giggle and writhe about in the corner of the sofa.

  15. Before the stars in their courses had twice appeared in the heavens she would writhe in misery.

  16. Mrs. Etheridge and Ethel, with savage pleasure, each sucked and bit the victim's nipples, causing her to writhe and scream in agony.

  17. Almost immediately she began to writhe and twist about, and he felt her balmy emission flow into his mouth as she spent with low moans.

  18. Is it that he might writhe in the nightmare, or suffer agony from cramps?

  19. The thoughts that writhe there in silence, that go into the stillness of Infinitude and Eternity, have no emblems.

  20. Serfs that writhe under the whip are not disquieted about their political rights; manumitted from personal slavery, they become sensitive to political oppression.

  21. However Reggie's soul might writhe and however sleepless Reggie's nights might become as a result of this encounter, he was prepared to fight it out on those lines if it took all summer.

  22. Something living seemed to writhe and jump in his hand.

  23. Let these snakes writhe and hiss about it.

  24. I understand now that in every man's pathway hiss and writhe the serpents of suspicion.

  25. Willie stared, tried to writhe away, saw it was no use, and capitulated.

  26. He tried to writhe out of her grasp, but his sister's muscles were hardened, and she was twice as strong as Willie had believed.

  27. A sea of heads in wild commotion surges there; the valley swarms with human life as ocean's slimy sands with creeping things that writhe and sting.

  28. At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut.

  29. Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me.

  30. I should like to set this house on fire; I should like to make all those detestable ladies hidden there shriek and writhe in agony, in some hellish blaze.

  31. And I regretted that I did not see him fall, shriek, writhe here in his studio filled with his genius, under my avid glance that watched him and hoped for the worst!

  32. Footnote 163: It was an O'Neill of great eminence who said that it did not become him to writhe his mouth to chatter English.

  33. To the watcher in space, they were mere moving, snaky lines of barely distinguishable dots that shivered and seemed to writhe in the refractions of the air.

  34. The shaggy mop of its hair seemed to writhe and twist, the long, thin fingers grasped spasmodically as it neared.

  35. They watched Brook's and Dearborne's naked bodies writhe and convulse in pain as they bled from huge wounds made on their bodies by the Angels' studded gauntlets and the messeigneur's spiked clubs.

  36. She held that child's head under water, watching it writhe and convulse, and she enjoyed watching it die, since she had never before killed something that was alive.

  37. In a word, if those that have lived wickedly come into heaven they gasp for breath and writhe about, like fishes out of water in the air, or like animals in ether in an airpump when the air has been exhausted.

  38. I saw them thrust their heads down to their feet and cast themselves upon the ground, and there writhe into coils like serpents, and this in consequence of their interior agony.

  39. There will then be no lost souls to blaspheme God, as they writhe in never-ending torment; no wretched beings in hell will mingle their shrieks with the songs of the saved.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writhe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; agonize; anguish; bend; bleed; blench; buckle; contort; crook; crumple; distort; fidget; flutter; glow; gnarl; grimace; heave; hurt; jerk; knot; palpitate; pant; pound; quake; quaver; quiver; screw; shake; shiver; shoot; shrink; smart; spring; squirm; struggle; suffer; swell; thrill; throb; tingle; toss; tremble; tumble; turn; twinge; twist; twitch; twitter; wag; waggle; warp; welter; wiggle; wince; worm; wrench; wrest; wriggle; wring; writhe