Example sentences for: contorted

How can you use “contorted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vaughan's preoccupation leads him to not only ponder the sexually charged road deaths of the famous (James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus), but to hang around accident sites, photographing them and later replicating the contorted postures of the victims in his trysts with prostitutes.

  • One is lulled into thinking that these contorted bathers are mere exercises in the handling of pastel, and not the work of, in the poet Paul Valéry's words, "a supremely cruel authority on female contours and poses."

  • Neither man would formally endorse the other, but when a reporter asked the mayor if he'd specifically urged the governor to run, Bush contorted his arm behind his back and said, "He twisted my.

  • The paper says Clinton, "his face contorted in anger, raged at the crowd to get back."

  • I'm in the basement on a July night, my body contorted, my laptop balanced on my knee.


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