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

The tree is hollow, and time and the elements have writhed it into fantastic shapes.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.