Example sentences for: writhing

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.


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