Contortion in a sentence

Contortion or crumbling of the foliation is by no means uncommon; splitting faces are undulose or puckered.

Peter, seized by a grotesque contortion in class, bashes his head bloody on his desk, to the shock of his classmates and teacher.

He enjoyed adding a distinctive glint to an eye or an idiosyncratic contortion to a character's face.

Some contortion was required to explain how the robots of the Robot series are almost completely absent from the Galactic Empire novels.

She built up the routine with simultaneous balancing and contortion before the climax of her act, a version of which she holds a Guinness World Record for.

Its generally slow pacing and painterly composition recall the work of Robert Wilson, and the sprinkling of acrobatic balances and contortion is a little cirque nouveau.

Since Franklin was facing Peterson, assuming Peterson is right-handed, he would have had to twist his arm into a contortion to be able to shoot Franklin on the right side of his head.

The Buddha stated that thinking about these imponderable ( Acinteyya ) issues led to "a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views" (Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta).

And finally, when contact can’t be avoided any longer, a rapid series of relationships results in the eros and humor in the rapid shift of hugs/wrestling holds—hand to armpit, head to knee, foot to neck, varieties of spoons, clutching, contortion.