What is "contorted"

Usage examples of "contorted".

All year round, a south wind blows from the sea into Baluchistan, so wherever we saw a tree it was always grown in a contorted arc, bending inland, like an arm beckoning us to come ashore.

The fire lizards had cleared the bowl of meat, and Camo stared into its hollow, his face contorted by an expression of dismay.

Kitty sat on the hearth and the new arrival stood at the far end of the fireplace while between the two women Oppy leaned, almost contorted, at an angle acros the mantelpiece.

Her perspectiveless face also contorted to smile or grimace, but it was like a disc of paper.

Kaiku as she held him, and even contorted in grief as they were he could not look away, not even when they seemed to fade, and beneath them there was a stitchwork of golden fibres, a brightness and an ecstasy such as he had never imagined.

A spear lunged toward him, and he dodged, seeing the first mutie approach again, face contorted with pain, mouth open, long wolflike tusks gleaming golden.

He held his copper athame and his mouth contorted with the spells he shouted inaudibly into the wind.

They were costumed as grotesques, their heads encased in monstrous casques mat were contorted and painted in demonic expressions and fitted with red compound eyes.

He saw none of the garish murals or contorted statuary created for the gawking tourists.

They wound past the bodies of the dead mobsters, past unattached, ruptured limbs and contorted torsos.

Around him, other shapes and contours contorted against a cloudless blue sky while alien scavengers swooped low, checking on their impending two-legged meal as they avidly monitored its increasingly laggard progress.

I vowed that, come what may, I would sing my odes at the Festival, even if contorted in the face from an asthmatic fit.

The black, contorted silhouette of the first dead crabapple tree along the driveway was visible, but the barn and outbuildings had disappeared.

We have seen that leaves immersed for some hours in dense solutions of sugar, gum, and starch, have the contents of their cells greatly aggregated, and are rendered more or less flaccid, with the tentacles irregularly contorted.

Conifers -- white spruce, larch, stone pine-hale and proud in their green-needled vigor, were prominent instead, and even the isolated dwarfs on the steppes, contorted by winds, gained substance by comparison.