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

These Hebrews to whom Jesus is speaking are writhing with sore shoulders under the galling yoke of the Romans.

From Quiet Talks on Service by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

She is only very faintly touched with doubt when she thinks that the people who are laughing at her are writhing with envy.

From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie