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Writhing in sentence

53 examples of Writhing in a sentence

Loki the mischief-maker, was writhing uncomfortably in Thor’s iron grip.
Over the next few hours, her writhing sets the trap off repeatedly, each time bringing her deeper into the plant to be digested alive bit by bit.
Grown men and women writhing uncontrollably, off the beat.
A peasant, who was walking to market that morning, ran towards where the gunshot had come from, and found a young man writhing in agony on the floor, clearly shot by a dueling wound.
Other problems with this film are odd segments that have nothing to do with the core of the film, such as the opening sequence with two cleaning women and the woman in a bed with a severed hand climbing over her writhing, naked body.
As I forced myself to sit through the movie, physically writhing from the inability to connect-the-dots, I was sure there would be some "light at the end of the tunnel" - a revelation to explain what in samhe.-.ll was going on.
There's soppy romance for the chick-flick crowd and stacks of oily, writhing female bodies for their dates, all set to a pumping disco beat.
He quickly becomes ill, and at the hospital spits out a large writhing white larva of some kind.
The opening scene sets the tone for the film: a woman writhing naked in a circle of fire, transforming into a werewolf.
5 minutes into this movie I was hyperventilating, shaking, and writhing in pain.
Even when Ogilvy and Company get fried by the Martians' 'Heat Ray'(?), they flounce and mince in some weird kind of dance, even when they're theoretically DEAD and reduced to skeletons, which persist in unseemly dancing and writhing.
There are a few "sexy" scenes that are alright -- the boys writhing in bed in their boxers, feeling themselves up; or being tied down and making orgasmic faces while wine is poured on them -- and some of them are kinda funny.
Hypercritical (of others) Fanny Craddock must, one might suppose, be writhing in frustration at not being able to correct this aspect of her portrayal.
The dancers are writhing.
It is a film full of scenes that terrify the cast, followed by scenes in which they act as if nothing had happened, and an obligatory soft-focus love-scene,and an opening scene of La Collins writhing,sweating and screaming as her character gives birth -- not a pretty sight.
But I kept watching this twisting writhing thing I would a sick snake, simply because it did not make much sense.
Dyan Cannon's opening line,"God I feel horny!", Rachel Roberts confessing to a lesbian affair,"It was a hot night and I had a thin blouse and no bra" Gene Hackman's reaction, Cara Williams drunken appearance at the club,"The truth is we're all tramps", Janice Rule's outfit, Lori's funeral, Rule writhing on the floor in drug induced lust,etc... all create hilarity in a seriously intended soaper:replete with subplots and a hospital setting.
The decadence of the city seems to reside in its airborne or writhing gay dancers, and in the opposition to Lot and his visitor the Angel.
Urged on by an excited Japanese preacher, men in grey suits started writhing on the floor, foaming at the mouth, and jabbering nonsense.
Today, it is again time to name names, and not only in the UK, where democracy is writhing with Brexit fever.
Despite the sometimes downright pornographic on-screen writhing of Bollywood starlets, India is still a deeply conservative society.
She was writhing in pain, her body convulsed with seizures.
Captain Nemo alerted his companion to this hideous crustacean, which a swing of the rifle butt quickly brought down, and I watched the monster's horrible legs writhing in dreadful convulsions.
They were the eyes of gigantic crustaceans crouching in their lairs, giant lobsters rearing up like spear carriers and moving their claws with a scrap-iron clanking, titanic crabs aiming their bodies like cannons on their carriages, and hideous devilfish intertwining their tentacles like bushes of writhing snakes.
It was writhing in the waters.
Its eight arms (or more accurately, feet) were rooted in its head, which has earned these animals the name cephalopod; its arms stretched a distance twice the length of its body and were writhing like the serpentine hair of the Furies.
With a sweep of the ax, Captain Nemo chopped off this fearsome tentacle, which slid writhing down the steps.
Brandishing its victim like a feather, one lone tentacle was writhing in the air.
The strephopode was writhing in hideous convulsions, so that the machine in which his leg was enclosed was knocked against the wall enough to break it.
She was writhing in his arms, weeping.
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