Example sentences for: writhing

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

  • Constraints on twisting again result in writhing, touching, and supercoiling.

  • The June issue of Vogue , for example, showed several shots of girls--among them Uma Thurman--on a sandy beach, writhing in the surf wearing long clinging evening dresses instead of bathing suits.

  • At the New York performance, the Israeli singer Esti Kenan Ofri spent most of the time shrouded in drapery and darkness at the foot of the podium, slowly rising and writhing only for the keening solo that ends the piece, a recitative redolent of Middle Eastern rites.

  • No one giggled at her when she communed with apes in Gorillas in the Mist , and no one will giggle at her in this epic oddity, even when she's writhing around in a mucousy pit of alien viscera, communing with the queen and its unborn fetus--an image so strange that it goes beyond the Jungian vampiric phalluses and womblike hatchways of earlier Alien films into what is possibly the collective unconscious of extraterrestrials.

  • But as Michelangelo conceives him, Hercules seems to be dancing with the Hydra, as though he's drawing from this encounter some of the writhing, erotic energy of the monster.


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