Example sentences for: writhing

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

  • The ten-armed goddess in the center of the torana is Taleju, pulling the hair of a demon beneath a pot-bellied Garuda, assorted writhing snakes, and cavorting attendants.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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