are writhing
- present progressive of writhe.
Example Sentences
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Around me, people are writhing on their mats, some weeping or howling like wolves.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
"Deep down in my heart," Feuchtwanger writes, "I know that I have not the slightest understanding of the causes of the barbaric turmoil in which we are writhing."
From Time Magazine Archive
I can’t seem tense, even though I feel like my insides are writhing within me.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
It is true that many are writhing and groaning in this cruel bondage, mastered and held captive by some debasing appetite or passion, perhaps by many.
From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Roe, Edward Payson
Afterwards means the time when you and I are buried, and the next generation are writhing in hair shirts of their own making, and prickly girdles which they put on themselves.'
From Greifenstein by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
