3170 examples of twist in sentences

We distrust reason,that is, what you call reason,for reason can twist anything, and pervert it; but what the Church says, is true,its collective intelligence is our supreme law

It curled, whether she would or no, so the only method was to part the curls and give them a twist into a coil, from which vagrant spirals fell to the white nape of her neck.

Nancy had a new yellow organdy made "almost to touch," and a twist of yellow ribbon in her hair.

While Kathleen and Julia were still unbraiding their hair, exclaiming at every twist of the hand as to the "loveliness" of the party, Nancy had kissed her mother and crept silently into bed.

There was malice in Dredlinton's pallid face, the ugly twist of his lips and the light in his bloodshot eyes.

His patch of high colour had gone; there was an ugly twist to his mouth, a livid tinge in his complexion, but nevertheless he slept.

He's as slippery as an eel, and, if he once gets to know that we are after him, he'll double and twist like a hare.

Both cabmen were sharp fellows and evidently familiar with every twist and turn of their famous London.

They were easily made, here being a large quantity of underwood, and a great number of wild vines, which twist to the top of the highest trees, and from which they make a very good sort of wine they call brusco.

The whole structure is as if given a twist by some terrific forcelike something wrong.

Then she picked up the tray, and, pushing the small table into its accustomed place with a deft twist of the foot, she sailed erect and prim out of the room, and the door primly clicked on her neat-girded waist and flying white ribbons.

3] bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.

[Fr.], siriasis^. fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice) 608; kleptodipsomania^; hypochondriasis [Med.] &c (low spirits) 837; melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia^. screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story.

; deficiency; inadequacy &c (insufficiency) 640; peccancy &c (badness) 649 [Obs.]; immaturity &c 674. fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw &c (break) 70; gap &c 198; twist &c 243; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish &c 848; weakness &c 160; half blood; shortcoming &c 304; drawback; seamy side.

" The reference to "law and orderly conduct of affairs" has taken a somewhat ironical twist, now that Centralia has shown the world what she considers such processes to be.

There was a swishing sound; then a sudden crunching jerk and the rope tied to the girder began to writhe and twist like a live thing.

The athletic servant clutched Frank, but, with a twist and a turn, Merry broke the hold instantly, kicked the fellow's feet from beneath him, and dropped him heavily to the deck.

'Hammond is an admirable Crichton, my dearby-the-by, who was admirable Crichton?knows everything, can twist your little head the right way upon any subject.' 'Oh,' thought Mary, 'highly cultivated, is he?

" His manoeuvers with his sleeve were so preposterous that Sylvia now cried to him: "Oh, don't twist around that way.

"And now!" A twist of the wrist so swift their eyes could not follow, a metallic click, and the startled group were staring into the black muzzle of a menacing little automatic.

C. Dickens, Oliver Twist, viii.

For, if we are not very careful, we shall be apt to mistake the meaning of Scripture, and make it say what we like, and twist it to suit our own fancies, and our own ignorance.

"At first everybody thought that the Bradfords, mother and son, would probably give up work and float on Sylvester J. Latham's money, for they say (to spite Vivvy, most likely) he took to Horace Bradford at the first, for what did the young fellow do but go straight to town and look Sylvester up, and make a clean breast of it before the gossips could even twist their tongues around the affair.

"Poor Georgette!" said Hermia softly, watching Olga's fingers quickly twist the erring strand into place.

A peculiar patriotic twist.

3170 examples of  twist  in sentences