She lifted clasped hands and blinded eyes; she was like a child saying its prayers but for the writhen torture of her face, where wild hopes and lunatic terrors played alternately.
Can it be France, an army of France, tricked, netted, convulsive, all writhen caught?
No flower their face shall be, but writhen stem; Their youth a frost, their age the dirge for youth.
O riven lute and writhen strings, Dead bough whereto no blossom clings, The glory was ephemeral!
Their hedges were scanty, writhen and knotted with hard life.
They crossed a zone of huge, wind-writhen hawthorns and came to a road, or rather a rutted track of wheels that cut the hill-side diagonally.
Their countenances seemed fiercely writhen into the wildest expression of pride, hate, and a desperate purpose of fighting to the very last.
See how his writhen features show under the hollow helmet, like those of a corpse tenanted by a demon, whose vindictive purpose looks out at the flashing eyes, while the visage has the stillness of death.
Three rays ofwrithen rain, of fire three more, Of winged southern winds and cloudy store As many parts, the dreadful mixture frame; And fears are added, and avenging flame.
Then all at once there burst from his writhen lips an awful, gasping scream, dreadful to hear, and then he was down, writhing and gasping awhile, with Don Federigo and Sir Richard bending above him.
Josh Perrott, glaring on thewrithen face below his own, and raising his case-knife in the manner of a cleaver, 'sing a hymn!
Then the Raven thought an' thought; an' he got very cur'ous to know why his young men died so writhen an' twisted.
The huge park held an enchanted forest of trees; the long avenue of giant limes, their writhen limbs arching and interlocking, their writhen roots deep in velvet moss, was an approach suited to a fairy story.
The conscience changes, and the brain as well; Another race is bred from putrid spawn, A writhen black totality, a sum Of ciphers spreading in a weltering scum, That outrages the healthfulness of Dawn.
In those twitching fists and that white, writhen face he recognized the signs of passion that might, on a second's notice, leap to murder.
The coward was now a maniac with terror, his face perfectly white, writhen with panic, and with staring eyes that gleamed horribly under the greenish vacuum-lights.
It is easy to remark that those strained postures and writhen limbs may have perverted the taste of lesser craftsmen.
Go, poor fool, and chew thy bitterness, and bake thy bannocks, and fret thy old husband until thy writhen flesh rot from thy bones, and thou gnawest them for malice and vexation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writhen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
