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Which sounds a bit contorted, but then, as Drabble points out, "It is only a metaphor.
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The researchers watched as the snake bit, contorted, and wound its prey into a deathly corkscrewlike grip.
The characters banter a bit, and contort their wasted bodies, and hitch a ride on a diminutive seaside donkey called Don-K (nothing is quite the right size in Lucia).
I pulled down the shade and, after a bit of contorting, lay down, the wall a few inches from my feet.
Built for tracking people who are standing on the ground, it tends to freak out a bit when the person it's tracking contorts into a more complex climbing pose.
The consequence, if the bubbles accumulate in a joint, is crippling pain and a contorted posture hence the name.
The story is a typically contorted and bonkers one.
Flames rendered the vehicle a blackened, contorted skeleton.
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Their faces are like a mask, contorted in a pernicious grimace.
Just beyond the spring is a wildly contorted section of canyon wall.
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