Example Sentences

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The acting is exceedingly sketchy and the lines lacking in literature or truth, but a good many people who have been writhing before great casts and majestically unfathomable plays this season were pleased.

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Do you know that I have been writhing on a bed of pain from morning to night?

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda