Example Sentences

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He tells them they are twisting his arm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

"They are twisting everything," the TV icon was quoted as saying, under a red "BREAKING NEWS" banner.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

Inside some of the darkened rooms, women are twisting together coils and plastic, making hair clips.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2023

Ten years after the Cronut, pastry chefs are twisting croissant dough into pinwheels and squiggles, tying it in knots and stacking it into cubes.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023

Both of them are twisting and hopping and trying to shield their heads with their arms as more bits and pieces of fallen sky race through the air at warp speed.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson