Example Sentences

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Like the bird, Hauser was contorting herself, trying to rise above behavior she could not, in the end, abide.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

The iron was contorting, twisting itself out of the abstract curls and coils into a frightening face, which spoke in a clanging, echoing voice: “State your purpose!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The most extraordinary thing about the man was, that he was contorting his face into the most fearful and astonishing grimaces that ever were beheld.

From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles

Before Val could follow it outside, it was nuzzling rapturously its mother, and the cow was contorting her body so that she could caress her offspring with her tongue, while she rumbled her satisfaction.

From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.