What is "twists"

Usage examples of "twists".

Rains had left a stagnant scum in the orichalc basins, but the bronze statues from which water had once played were twists of verdigris which gave no hint of their former shapes.

It neither twists nor tangles as do those of the raw Flow, and its color is the pure crimson of hot steel in a forge.

He twists the ring with the Seal of Mastery around his finger to its proper place, and he puts on his Important Business voice.

Curving within this huge shadow that painted the stadium in dark greens were twists of purest gold, like the sun seen on the bottom of a rippling pool of clear water.

Its twists of wire and metal, its knots of multicoloured glass were intricate and lovingly crafted.

The twists and convolutions, the half-random whorls and skeins of intricate flesh that had made up that rapacious totality had been functions of some unthinkable, inhuman symmetry, cells multiplying like obscure and imaginary numbers.

The few New Crobuzon Perrickish live mostly in Echomire, yet here she is, three miles upstream as the river twists, waking the great Day fisher with her exquisite playing.

In the backs of the carts the men and women sat on enormous rocking twists of the frayed wire.

Isaac snatched glimpses of opera posters curling ragged off walls, twists of barbed wire and concrete embedded with broken glass, the arches of the Kelltree rail-link that branched from the Dexter Line, hovering over Sunter and Bonetown.

You must understand, even goddesses cannot foresee unexpected deaths, those twists of mortality, decisions taken, paths followed or not followed.

He breathed softly, relaxing, forcing gnawing twists of hunger from his consciousness.

Garric and the rest could see all sorts of ways and twists and questions.

The cavern was generally broad enough for the three of them to go abreast, but its twists and turns meant frequent blind corners.

Lances caught fleeing skirmishers and flung the bodies aside with quick twists to clear the point.

I hate winter, season of death, the sad season, sky sad, sea sad, land sad and ugly and freezing, trees bare, and the cold that twists your joints, reminding you how old you are.