Sentence examples for twist themselves from inspiring English sources

News outlets twist themselves into logical knots insisting that they do not pay for interviews.

"They have to twist themselves into a pretzel to avoid having to give the widows what is due them," Mr. Schumer said of the Justice Department.

Some people still twist themselves into pretzels trying to duck their civic obligation, like a fellow who faked documents last week to show that he had already served.

And when Trock dancers twist themselves into human pretzels in "Go for Barocco," also on view this season, they parody George Balanchine's abstract style at its most convoluted.

Now urbanites who sit in chairs all day walk into a studio a couple of times a week and strain to twist themselves into ever-more-difficult postures despite their lack of flexibility and other physical problems.

Sporadic interest in closing the loopholes companies use to twist themselves into such structures tends to sputter out, whether through genuine concern at the economic fallout or as a result of corporate emoluments spread over the appropriate constituencies.

As this headline in The Huffington Postaptly put it, "Republicans Are Twisting Themselves Into Pretzels To Defend Donald Trump".

But in the process, far too many had to twist, turn and pull themselves out of shortfalls with budgeting gimmicks.

In the 2000s, however, we saw convertibles in the form of laptops that could twist and turn themselves into tablets.

"People are twisting themselves inside out," the woman said.

Both men have also twisted themselves into knots to distance themselves from previous positions, so that voters can no longer believe anything they say.