Sentence examples for to twisting from inspiring English sources
verb
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
Our calculations show that ZGNR in its ground state (antiferromagnetic) is insensitive to twisting, there is no band gap change, and the conductance of the twisted ZGNR is almost unchanged as well.
They preferred encouraging nature to twisting her about.
Both seem drawn to twisting asymmetries and off-kilter angles with almost mannerist intensity.
The script offers moments of discomfort for which Scherfig isn't quite up to twisting the knife.
Giuseppe Penone is attracted to pattern and texture in Klimt and Mantegna; Dorothea Rockburne to twisting Mannerist compositions.
All double bonds confer a torsional rigidity (a resistance to twisting) to the parts of molecules where they lie.
The following decades were dedicated to twisting his melon, touring the globe with Happy Mondays and Black Grape.
Treating scientists' emails as public records, subject to twisting by anti-science ideologues, chills the vital expression of competing, and changing, views on which science depends.
Wales's forwards benefited from the interlude and after James King won a line-out, Lloyd Williams went close to twisting his way over.
Sticking to twisting local roads, we took lunch in lofty Zumarraga, where conversation stopped and beret-clad heads twisted as we entered the restaurant.
Other, more abstract objects the shuffle of a pack of cards, the forces that govern our universe can likewise be thought of as symmetrical if they remain unchanged after mathematical operations analogous to twisting and flipping.
