Contortions Sentence Examples

Gavin wriggled forward, performed some contortions and disappeared.

Several styles seem to be emerging but they all require impressive contortions and plenty of time.

The dog helps us again by making similar contortions.

If you do some contortions you may glimpse a turbine at the bottom of the chamber at the entrance end.

Or, simply watch the facial contortions for your own amusement.

And John Ramm, as his clerk Noggs, is subject to extraordinary physical contortions in his attempt to survive in a wicked world.

And so, as a substitute for my lack of technique, I do a few contortions.

Campbell's Betty Boo's bodily contortions when entering and exiting the stage is side splittingly funny.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

Nylon and vinyl are popular choices because they can be wiped clean with a damp cloth, and while they are sturdy, they are not overly rigid and can withstand some minor twisting and contortions.

The result is today's modern dance - a series of free flowing movements, unconventional dance steps, and out of this world leaps, spins and body contortions.

Twig-like projections, to which the term helictite has been applied by the present writer, are met with in certain portions of the cave, and are interesting by their strange and uncouth contortions.

There may also be grounds for discussing the present standards of equipment and whether they need to be altered to cause less strenuous contortions.

In avoiding the literary conceits and fopperies which he satirizes he has recourse to the most unnatural contortions of expression.

As the egg passes at last through the alarmingly distended neck, the snake makes some slight contortions and the swelling collapses, the shell having been filed through by the saw-like apparatus.