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.

  • 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.

  • I dream'd this mortal part of mineWas Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;Which crawling one and every wayEnthralled my dainty Lucia .Me thought, her long small legs & thighsI with my Tendrils did surprize;Her Belly, Buttocks, and her WasteBy my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd :About her head I writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid amongThe leaves) her temples I behung:So that my Lucia seem'd to meYoung Bacchus ravisht by his tree.My curles about her neck did craule,And armes and hands they did enthrall;So that she could not freely stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)

  • Ambient noise falls away, the crowd disappears, and there she is, Lester's angel, writhing in slow motion--just for him.

  • Try as we may, we can't escape the glass Chihuly makes (or rather, has others make): the lurid "Venetians," writhing "sea forms," and extravagant, candleless "chandeliers" resembling giant wasps' nests or clusters of water-filled condoms.


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