单词	contortion
释义	contortioncon‧tor‧tion /kənˈtɔːʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Some bills go through numerous legislative contortions before they are approved. the involuntary contortion of muscles Torrence dances with the lithe contortions of a cobra. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS By a contortion of semantics he led the so-called Liberal Party. He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case, in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling, rope-biting contortions. His thin body was rigid and they could see the contortions of his facial muscles beneath the skin. I went to a gory pile of dead human forms in every kind of stiff contortion. It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary. One contortion flows into another, each stunt is more beautiful than the last. Two wounded people, he will joke during their nightly contortions. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► went through ... contortions  He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit. 1[countable] a twisted position or movement that looks surprising or strange:  I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet. facial contortions2[uncountable] when something is twisted so that it does not have its normal shape:  involuntary muscle contortion3[countable] something difficult you have to do in order to achieve something:  He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.
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