the grammar may seem contorted, and the usage may be unfamiliar, but you get the picture immediately.
For every healthy, valuable cub, it is thought that many are born with ailments like shortened tendons, club foot, kidney problems, malformed backbones, contorted necks, and twisted faces.
Her face contorted/was contorted with pain.
He contorted the document out of its proper meaning.
The contorted tale of ti, which culminated in the resignation of its chairman, Marco Tronchetti Provera, in September, holds two lessons about doing business in Italy.
A spasm of pain contorted his face.
They screamed, threw things, uttered peculiar sounds and contorted themselves into strange positions, and a local doctor blamed the supernatural.
Now, a sofa hangs from the broken Windows of a furniture store, clothes shops are burnt out casings, corner stores are wasted caves of contorted, melted shelves and ash.
Hence the contorted spectacle of a party preparing for power at a time when the markets are challenging its every orthodoxy.
Eliza appeared in the door, her face contorted by sweeping.
The girl's face was contorted with hate.
His face contorted to a snarl, his hand raised to strike.
She twisted and contorted her body into incredible shapes for my lens and was happy to do it again to make it look even better.
A scowl contorted Tu Hsueh-shih's catlike face, and he stalked off in high dudgeon to watch the mahjong game in the dining-room again.
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