twist
verb (used with object)
to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
twistingly
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a word derived from
twist.
Example Sentences
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All they discovered was a strange, sweet smelling spoor that led twistingly into the fen.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
Hands on each other’s shoulders, they stood there in the gathering dark, where grotesque trees arched twistingly overhead.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
A driveway led twistingly down from the gate-lodge, to the house.
From Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
Being in mid-leap when he received the blow Jerry was twistingly somersaulted sidewise before he struck the deck on his back.
From Jerry of the Islands by Jack London
Holy was gurgling ecstatically, his delight finding vent in a yell of irrepressible joy as Punk fumbled twistingly with his bare upper lip in emulation of Douglass's impatient twirls of his mustache.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
