Example Sentences

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As I crouched behind a rippling fountain, stretching and contorting my body to attain the correct angle, I began to wonder, “Do the Lumineers think I’m some kind of a lunatic?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Images of Vance have sprouted up on X contorting his face into that of, well, everything you can imagine.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2025

His gift for contorting himself through the air and landing on the designated spot has made him one of the most sought-after stuntmen.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

Their motions and poses are often inscrutable, but their faces are sometimes telegraphic, contorting into open-mouthed expressions of amusement or agony as readable as the masks of comedy and tragedy.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

He tried to set his expression into “bravery in the grip of terrible adversity” but it was difficult with the wind contorting his face as if he were in a free fall without a parachute.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith