3170 examples of twisted in sentences

First of all, he knew, it would whisper of the creation of a world; it would tell of oceans torn and twisted and thrown asideof those first strange eons of time when there was no night, but all was day; when weird and tremendous monsters stalked where he now saw the caribou drinking at the creek, and when huge winged creatures half bird and half beast swept the sky where he now saw an eagle soaring.

She twisted her hands together behind her back.

She twisted about in her chair, took his hand from her shoulder, and drew it, stiff and sallow, to her young lips.

It was a large house of tortured architecture, cupolas and twisted supports and strange, overlapping scallops of wood, painted wavy green, pinkish red and yellow.

Its windows were of every size and shape and appeared in unreasonable, impossible placesopening enormous mouths on tiny balconies with twisted posts and scalloped railings, like embroidery patterns, one on top of the other up to a final absurdity of a bird cage which found room for itself between two cupolas under the roof.

She pressed her lips tight, drew her fine arched brows together, and twisted her fingers.

He might still have got clear, but, as it chanced, he had fallen awkwardly as could beno bones broken, as far as he could tell, but twisted somehow, and unable to drag himself out.

Rajah was in the bow with his sarong twisted into a belt, and his black shoulders and arms bare to the sun, his head swathed in a turban made from a faded green port-curtain, giving him an outlandish aspect, reminding me of a pilgrim returning from Mecca.

It has usually no definable shape, often sending out one or two branches greatly beyond the rest, some directed obliquely downwards, others twisted and horizontal.

The whole is covered from its roots to its summit with a fringe of vine-like twigs, extremely slender, twisted and irregular, and resembling a parasitic growth.

The sailor closed his eyes, tilted back his head, twisted his face to a hideous grimace, and then opening his shapeless mouth emitted a tremendous wail which took shape in the following words: "Oh, don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, with hair like the sunshine" "Shut up!" roared Lawlor.

The eyes of Calamity rolled up; the wide lips twisted over formless words; there was no sound from his mouth.

" "Who?" The face of Nash twisted into an ugly grimace.

Rudolf and Ann hurried along as fast as they could go, but it was hard work to make their way through the tangled undergrowth where the twisted roots set traps for their feetand caught them, too, sometimeswhile overhead the tall trees met and mingled their branches.

There were several chairs and a round table all made of boughs with the bark left on and the mantel-piece was built of curiously twisted branches.

He stumbled and fell over a twisted root, hurt his knee, and gave a loud angry squeal.

The river twisted among the lakes and marshes choked with wild rice;

The arms and back of the chair are ornamented with a twisted knot-work pattern.

Above or about the pictures lay mossy, gnarled, and twisted branches, gray and green, framing them in a forest arabesque; and great pine cones, pendent from their boughs, crowned and canopied the mirror.

Leslie put something, twisted lightly in soft paper, beside it.

This is an iron rod, with a piece of metal at one end twisted into the form of an extinguisher, but with a small opening left at the pointed extremity.

It is a jumble of heavy Gothic and Italian, and the apse is twisted out of line with the nave, in which respect, however, it is like the cathedral of Quimper.

The idea was not obvious until he twisted the withes about his waist; then, when he bent down, the shirt stood up erect above him.

It turned and twisted constantly; and at every bend the men who originally closed it had built up a wall of heavy masonry that Scharnhoff had had to force his way through.

"To sit in a huge room hotter than a glass-house, in a posture emulating the most sanctified Faquir, with a throbbing head-ache, a breaking back, and twisted legs, with a heavy tube held over one eye, and the other covered with the unemployed hand, is, in Vraibleusia, called a public amusement."

3170 examples of  twisted  in sentences