Example Sentences

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For some, hiring a party coach is a radical act of prioritizing leisure time and breaking with a culture where people will contort themselves to optimize their work life while letting their personal time suffer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

What makes his novels funny is Greer’s understanding of how absurdly writers will contort their psyches to feel like they count, like they’re loved.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

Part of the problem is that people will contort logic in seemingly absurd ways to maintain a high opinion of themselves.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2021

A frightened chimp will contort its face into an anxious “fear grin.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2019

Creating a development plan and acting on it will contort that bad feeling into one of progress, self-motivation and achievement.

From Forbes • Jun. 3, 2014