Sentence examples for downward twist from inspiring English sources

He made a face that his mother makes all the time, a downward twist of the mouth.

If Europe is to avoid yet another downward twist in its demographic spiral, "tempo-adjusted fertility" may hold the secret.

Most wings, whether on gliders or airliners, have a little downward twist (or "washout") built into them deliberately, so that their inner sections stall before their tips do.

Retighten the crowning as before by pulling each strand in a clockwise downward twist.

Retighten the crown as before by pulling each crowned strand in a clockwise downward twist.

("Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on," with hilding meaning "bent downward, twisted waywardly aside"). But rode in on suggests a startling entrance.

You should be able to grab and ear and pull it downward, then twist it off by hand.

The new result doesn't quite rule out MOND because the twisting pendulum is still subject to other accelerations, such as the downward pull of gravity, which might hide any deviation because of MOND, Gundlach says.

Two methods are to start using the screwdriver and then pull the rest off with pliers, or simply keep applying downward pressure while twisting the screwdriver.

Call it a yogic twist: Downward-facing dog is no longer just for humans.

Mr. Bostridge has claims to don-hood himself -- he was an Oxford scholar before embarking on his singing career -- and he looks the part: a rail-thin figure, head inclined downward, fingers sometimes twisting as he snarled out the opening line of Britten's settings of Rimbaud.