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• He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.From the entry groin
• When the ambulance doors opened, doctors were confronted with six moulaged clowns, each writhing in pain from impressive fake acid burns.From the entry moulaged
• This affront to their immortal good taste leaves them writhing in agony—exposing all manner of vampireyness.2013, Rita Harris, Heather Harwood, Your Guide to Spotting and Outing Bloodsuckers at Work, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry vampireyness
• She grimaced a bit before writhing around seductively on the table.2012, Gail Starbright, Slave Girl for Rent, page 43. From the entry electrosex
• It spasmed, curvetted, tossed and writhed, to throw that malignity from its shoulders.1981, Tanith Lee, Delusion's Master, New York: Daw Books, Prologue, page 30. From the entry curvet
• Tomas' hands worked open and closed in a twitchlike grab at the straw, writhing slightly.1976, Leon Uris, Trinity, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 50. From the entry twitchlike
• Lassies writhing on little checkerboard handkerchiefs of dancefloor.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125. From the entry dancefloor
• She writhed and pushed back into me, responding to my probing, licking, circling, my sheer savage feasting on her dirt-box.2021, Jilly Bangs, Free Use World 7-pack. From the entry dirt-box
• He writhes over her for a minute or two as she sits sphinxlike, dignified, head straight in the air.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry sphinxlike
• It shrieked and writhed as the heat seared its flesh, dropping its spear to bat at the smoldering wounds.2013 April, Chris A. Jackson, “A Surprise Engagement”, in Pirate’s Honor (Pathfinder Tales), Paizo, →ISBN, pages 113–114. From the entry cecaelia
• In wrath when we writhe, or in wrothness are wapped.1999, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays, page 176. From the entry wrothness
• To the attics where thin pink salamanders writhed through crushed red Xmas balls and turned all silver and red and Xmassy.1996, Don Webb, A spell for the fulfillment of desire, page 84. From the entry Xmassy
• We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.1986 May, Diane Carey, chapter 2, in Dreadnought! (A Star Trek® Novel; 29), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry crayfishy
• Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent.1928 February 13, “The New Pictures”, in Time. From the entry persuasion
• As they come to themselves, they writhe in agony, so that their hammocks rock violently to and fro.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 63. From the entry come to oneself
• His body was contracted and bent towards them, and described an undulatory movement like that of a worm writhing.1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 146. From the entry describe
• Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men and women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions.1951 November 5, “Manners & Morals: Americana”, in Time, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2010. From the entry froth at the mouth
• The devilfish felt the menace of his attitude, and his two longest tentacles began to writhe in the air, as he measured our distance.1922, Frederick O'Brien, Atolls of the Sun, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, pages 164–165. From the entry devilfish
• Now conservation of helicity is maintained: the writhe of the loops in the second panel is compensated for by the opposite sign of the twist helicity along the loops.2016, Eric G. Blackman, “Magnetic Helicity and Large Scale Magnetic Fields: A Primer”, in Andre Balogh, Andrei Bykov, Jonathan Eastwood…. From the entry helicity
• Visitors enter through a set of huge wrought-iron gates decorated with basalt statues writhing in agony and the famous phrase ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.2006, Karen Chance, Touch the Dark, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry abandon hope, all ye who enter here
• Where Willow was thunderous and craggy, a sort of Makepeace Watermaster without a secret, Murgo writhed inside his habit like a ferret roped into a bag.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry craggy
• The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again.1944, Emily Carr, “Poison”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry gritty
• Joolby lay on the floor beside his special chair, his face doubly terrible in its rigid set, his body writhing this way and that with spasmodic jerks and contortions.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry set
• The weekend parties, which feature thong-clad girls writhing on stripper poles, are hip enough to pull in a mix of faux-hawks, bridge-and-tunnel singles, celesbians, and even a spattering of boys.2006 March 13, “Best Lesbian Bar”, in New York, volume 39, numbers 8–14, page 84. From the entry celesbian

Meaning of writhe

1. verb To twist, wring (something).
2. verb To contort (a part of the body).
3. verb To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.

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How do you use writhe in a sentence?

Writhe is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.”

What is a short sentence with writhe?

“Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent.”

What does writhe mean?

Writhe means to twist, wring (something).