WRITHE in a Sentence

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77 example sentences for WRITHE, such as:

1. She writhed with a jealous pang.
2. Her empty stomach writhed within her.
3. The patient was writhing on the bed in agony.
4. 'I should like to, very much,' replied Uriah, with a writhe.
5. His dazed eyes stare at the eels, which still writhe and entwine.

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 Meanings and Examples of WRITHE
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writhe
 v.  move in twisting or contorted motion; contort in pain
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  The stories about him that came back to Atlanta from Richmond and Wilmington made those who had received him in other days writhe with shame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Tomorrow she would think of Rhett's conduct and her shame and they would make her writhe again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  It was not only the desire to be with him that made her writhe with helpless impatience at her confinement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  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.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
6  'I should like to, very much,' replied Uriah, with a writhe.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
7  At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
8  I shall have a hunch on my back and then I shall die, and he began to writhe again and turned on his face and sobbed and wailed but he didn't scream.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  These ramifications of pipes with their hundred elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the fronts of old farm-houses.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT
10  Some lay stiff and still but many writhed under the hot sun, moaning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Her empty stomach writhed within her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  The flames raced ever beyond her, toward the walls of the covered runway, fiery snakes that writhed and leaped and, exhaustion sweeping her, she knew that it was hopeless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  His thick gray brows writhed together as though the effort of stringing words together was difficult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  Confronted with the prospect of negro rule, the future seemed dark and hopeless, and the embittered state smarted and writhed helplessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  She writhed with a jealous pang.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  In Dances with Snakes, the snake dancer wriggled sinuously and made her python writhe around her torso.
2  His dazed eyes stare at the eels, which still writhe and entwine.
3  The patient was writhing on the bed in agony.