Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The potato sequence is cleverly done, though the ploy could get out of hand; good luck with finding olive trees as writhingly gnarled as van Gogh’s.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

Upon coming out of these, she suffered the most dreadful pain, her whole frame being collapsed, and her limbs drawn writhingly together.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

One of them crawled writhingly over the others, lifted its head and put out its tongue at her: shivering, she opened the letter.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

Then paces the floor to and fro, with hands clasped across her forehead, the white attenuated fingers writhingly entwined in her hair.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

The crowd parted to a narrow, living lane, and lean fingers clutched writhingly to touch them as they passed between the solid ranks.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various