have writhed
- present perfect of writhe.
Example Sentences
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Anyone in the habit of agonising over England would have writhed anew at the first-half spectacle.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2010
Slavery has tortured American historians for generations: slavery theses and revisions of them have writhed through the stream of historiography for 150 years or longer.
From Time Magazine Archive
If not for the fifteen years of training, I would have writhed on the floor; I would have had to be held down.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
I have writhed with shame every time I have thought of those words, Mrs. Collingwood.
From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen
If glances could have burned, he would have writhed under the look that a pair of iris-blue eyes was dealing him over a bread crust.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
