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Of course, I did my best to randomly stretch and squirm and writhe after submitting myself to each machine.
Footballers here are less inclined to tumble over in an exaggerated fashion or writhe around feigning injury.
In the second act, Colker's sleek, scantily-clad dancers writhe seductively in and out of a clear plastic tank.
Bikini-clad dancers writhe onstage at a swinger's club in their best '80s music-video impersonation.
Their red locks and adornments of coral and pearls flounder on the pitch and whirl of the waves which augment the writhe of their seasnake legs.
Those are the moments that bring out air guitar virtuosos and fill the dance floor, moments when mosh pits writhe and heads bang.
Creatures that slither, writhe or scuttle currently form the star attraction for visitors of all ages to the town.
She sobbed uncontrollably and Andriel could feel her body contort and writhe.
While his vocals do seem to lack some of the energy and vigor that I expected, he still makes each word writhe in the most simplistic way.
They would have played hockey and soccer, in matches with no beg-pardons, but also no players to writhe about on the ground with feigned injury.
Twist and writhe around your length of bamboo to the likes of Kylie or Gareth, while training your runner beans or sweet peas.
Frescoes of demons and spirits writhe across the walls of its prayer halls, and the drone of absorbed monks fills dim rooms and corridors.
Movement is suggested less by the heavy-footed dancers than by the writhe and flamboyance of the composition.
She found great satisfaction in seeing him writhe in discomfort.
Sedna's house mate, who looked like a child, would remain under the blanket and wreathe and writhe.
The migratory instinct is so strong that some adults will writhe overland for up to 24 hours between landlocked ponds and sea-bound rivers to reach the ocean.
We can be both logical and consistent without straitjacketing the language so tightly as to make its native speakers writhe in discomfort.
But Tory MPs, who writhe at his inept performances in the Commons, know that their leader lacks what it takes to be prime minister.
But until then I shall writhe silently under the pitying glances of friends and readers wondering how I could have got it quite so wrong.
As I watch them writhe in simulated pain, a young punk comes along and grabs some cardboard from the ground and starts tearing it into tiny pieces.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But writhe as he liked, his darting glances always painfully returned to the still victim on the charpoy.
Their forky tongues licked the bones that appeared to writhe and crawl in living agony.
They began to writhe about his limbs, but drew no sound to vie with their crackling.
Somehow it all made me writhe, agitated me so that I could hardly keep my seat.
In mid-air it seemed to writhe and try to change the direction of its leap.
At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut.
Is it that he might writhe in the nightmare, or suffer agony from cramps?
Let talent writhe and contort itself as it may, it has no such magnetism.
He watched it blister and writhe as though it had been a living thing.
As he spoke the psychic began to toss and writhe and moan pitifully.
I saw the beast, which was perched upon the bowl, writhe and twist.
The serpents around the witch's hat began to writhe and uncoil.
This spectacle of gradual strangulation made the youth writhe, and once as his friend rolled his eyes, he saw something in them that made him sink wailing to the ground.
Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me.
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