Wondering how to use Writhing in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as squirming or twisting.
Writhing meaning
Bended in twisting struggle.
Using Writhing
- The main meaning on this page is: Bended in twisting struggle.
- Useful related words include: squirming, twisting, wiggling, wiggly.
- In the example corpus, writhing often appears in combinations such as: writhing in, writhing around, and writhing.
Context around Writhing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Writhing
- In this selection, "writhing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seen, motion, dragunov, crystal, gem and trees stand out and add context to how "writhing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include breathing and writhing motions as and concertgoers while writhing around on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "writhing" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with writhing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An Ohio doctor described CHS patients as 'writhing around in pain' and looking extremely unwell. (15 words)
Distressing footage of 'coronavirus patient writhing on hospital trolley in infection-hit Wuhan' is shared. (15 words)
Evans was writhing in pain on the ground after appearing to aggravate a right hamstring injury. (16 words)
It also explains why Kalanick ended up writhing on the floor after seeing video of himself berating an Uber driver, because he knew the damage the clip would do and that there was no way to spin himself out of it. (41 words)
Only four days earlier, the 35-year-old Scherzer had so strained his right trapezius muscle that he was writhing in bed, his neck and shoulder locked so tightly he needed his wife’s help to rise and get dressed. (40 words)
As Darlington played, sometimes there was a sudden shriek, the sound of heavy breathing and writhing motions, as a spirit crossed the chasm between the netherworld and came to join the world of the living. (35 words)
Ramming Ilja into the post, back inside briefly, back to the floor, Dragunov writhing in pain but he beats the count! (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
Created via synthesis, players will need the materials: Illusory Crystal (x1), Damascus (x2), Writhing Crystal (1x), Writhing Gem (2x).
From both ends of the tunnel the gunfire began again, and Pil did his best to wrench his body and cover Keith, who was moaning and writhing under him.
Morant — who was called for a charge on the play — crashed to the ground and was immediately seen writhing in pain.
Almost all the work is in motion; writhing trees, ploughed fields like waves — in his drawings, undistracted by colour, we see spiky pencil strokes going places.
Although he got the ball away, pitching it backward to Josh Jacobs, Love did not get up, writhing in pain.
An Ohio doctor described CHS patients as 'writhing around in pain' and looking extremely unwell.
Evans was writhing in pain on the ground after appearing to aggravate a right hamstring injury.
Ramming Ilja into the post, back inside briefly, back to the floor, Dragunov writhing in pain but he beats the count!
She's said her days of writhing around in barely-there outfits are long gone, and admitted Nick nearly 'had a coronary' when he saw some of her raunchy pop videos.
The international best-selling novelist, Louis de Bernieres (author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin) has praised Reeling and Writhing, saying: ‘His verses are rich in imagery, narrative and feeling.
As Darlington played, sometimes there was a sudden shriek, the sound of heavy breathing and writhing motions, as a spirit crossed the chasm between the netherworld and came to join the world of the living.
Calling out the so-called ‘semi-naked, pole-writhing, crotch-grabbing’ performance of the pair as they teamed up to entertain millions in Miami, the breakfast host felt the event was ‘divisive’.
Distressing footage of 'coronavirus patient writhing on hospital trolley in infection-hit Wuhan' is shared.
A river of eels are writhing their way down the line to be packed into perforated bags and then into boxes.
It also explains why Kalanick ended up writhing on the floor after seeing video of himself berating an Uber driver, because he knew the damage the clip would do and that there was no way to spin himself out of it.
Only four days earlier, the 35-year-old Scherzer had so strained his right trapezius muscle that he was writhing in bed, his neck and shoulder locked so tightly he needed his wife’s help to rise and get dressed.
Twitch power users generally agree that it first hatched out of the wriggly, writhing meme spawning pit that is variety streamer Sebastian “Forsen” Fors’ community.
Yeah, well screw you, you just put horrible mental images in my head of a writhing mass of snails inside my clothes.
During a gripping performance of “1539 N. Calvert,” Peggy was one with the audience, performing among the concertgoers while writhing around on the floor and wrapping his arm around different attendees.
Even today the comparisons of Walter’s writhing nude body with the tentacles of an octopus drew people up short.
Common combinations with writhing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- writhing in 7×
- writhing around 4×
- and writhing 3×
- writhing on 3×
- writhing under 2×
- up writhing 2×
- was writhing 2×
- of writhing 2×