Example Sentences

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Kafka, talking about the process of writing, wrote that there was no reason to leave one's desk: that if you sit there long enough, the world "will writhe before you".

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2010

Like a mangled reptile whose tail will writhe until sundown, the Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy, smashed at by investigators since 1923, still had life in it last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lovers of the all-season Bennett will relish this book, but lovers of Katherine Mansfield will writhe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir 27:23 When thou art present, he will speak sweetly, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and slander thy sayings.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

If you take her with you, your hands will writhe again.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry