writhing

• She'd lost track of Penfeld's coat during her writhing, and most of it was trapped around her waist. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
• But then I'd look across the desert and a hot wind would whip into my face and the sun would glare down so hard that my sunglasses couldn't keep the shine away and I'd have to squint to see that the metal grids in the crosswalk signs were twisting, writhing, actually melting in the heat, and I knew that I had to believe it The nights during Christmas weren't any better. —  ellis_bret_easton_less_than_zero
• Swaying, writhing, the things about him seemed to be clutching at him Now Monk did what he had been planning to do as a last resort--hauled out one of Doc's explosive grenades and pulled the pin and got rid of it. —  181 - Up From Earth's Center
• The word stirred in him like a living thing -writhing, growing, dissolving the memories of the dream and the calm that followed it. —  David Gemmell - (Lion of Macedon 01) Lion Of Macedon v1.0 (1990).htm
• Then there is the physical part; the writhing, the flailing; that, you see, is the torture, and that can lead only to one thing: the final explosion of passion, the spurting of the seed; that is the confession, you see. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008

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