The table napkin found its way into Mei-Feng's hands and had been twisted and turned into weird shapes. |
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Fortunately, the wreck has not twisted significantly, so the exposed metal ribs can be used as a navigation aid. |
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The bottle is tall and elegant with almost a barley-sugar, twisted moulding. |
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He said the roof of the car was twisted and he expected it to be a write-off. |
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Behind him was a deer with great horns that twisted and turned in every direction. |
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When the building sprang back and forth like a car antenna, door frames twisted and jammed shut, trapping a number of them in a conference room. |
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You may never usually watch such lowculture television but, trust me, the twisted ending they've dreamed up is jaw-dropping. |
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Intricate finger-picked bass loops over complex, time-shifting drum patterns and twisted electronics, like 808 State played by jazzmen. |
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The whole sorry saga shows that the meaning of racism has become twisted beyond recognition. |
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Ian twisted his body sideways and banged his hip into the frame of the chair, jolting the rear wheels over the edge of the curb. |
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He grabbed the first guard by his arm and twisted it behind his back and at the same time landed a full punch at his neck just below the jugular. |
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Tara held a small piece of twisted cloth soaked in oil over the little flame and the oil soaked cloth caught alight. |
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They produce quantities of small adornments of hammered sheet gold, including spiral ear and twisted nose ornaments. |
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Many black and silver belts twisted and hung to snuggle the smallness of his waist and the jut of his hips. |
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Multi-coloured twisted frills of crepe paper were suspended from wall to wall covering the ceiling like a kaleidoscopic canopy. |
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Amusing, instantly likable, and whip-smart, he's in possession of a life so unconventional and fantastical, it's more twisted than fiction. |
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Her ears twisted until they stuck out sideways, she took several rasping breaths. |
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This was a beautiful part of the old city, with catacombs and twisted alleyways, a casbah of the eastern Mediterranean. |
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Oblivious to its place in history, the feisty North Island brown kiwi twisted its head as the Tainui kaumatua intoned a karakia. |
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Women had long hair, but marriageable girls wore their hair twisted up into large whorls on either side of their heads. |
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The wick of the candle is either made of a braided or twisted plant fibre which is the safest to burn. |
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Urban Britain, with its street lights and kerbstones, has twisted its fingers into every fibre of rural England's pelt. |
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He laughed and thumped the table in appreciation, then twisted his fist in front of his nose, miming a snout. |
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She had a wild look in her eyes and her face was all twisted up in excitement. |
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In a process very similar to extracting a cork from a wine bottle, the auger bit is twisted in and extracted without rotation. |
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It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo. |
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The thing about a shopping centre is it's a kind of twisted microcosm of the world. |
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She slipped on a pair of heels, twisted her hair up in a clip, and gracefully walked out of her room. |
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He wanted something heightened, very stylized, and a sense of twisted kink to get across his message. |
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In the past, it was thought that the baby's feet were twisted or cramped because of the way the baby lay in its mother's womb. |
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There is one painting of a dead cedar tree, with a blackish, twisted upside-down tornado on a warm desert hillside. |
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I decided that the movie, no matter how bleak and hopeless it may seem, is ultimately about redemptive hope, albeit a twisted one at that. |
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In Sri Lanka, which lost some 30,000 citizens, nature twisted the knife as torrential rains flooded refugee camps. |
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Instead of simply redoing that song, they twisted and turned it inside out, revealing new textures and motifs to play in and around. |
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She twisted her long hair into a knot at the base of her neck and began to pin it into place. |
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She twisted her hands, trying to figure out how they had knotted the ropes. |
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The black and twisted wreckage of at least a dozen vehicles lies in the bus station. |
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The motorway was closed as rescuers battled to free casualties from the twisted wreckage of the coach. |
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Their bodies twisted as each tried to wrest the weapon from the other's grasp. |
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I twisted around and got to my knees before he was upon me again, wrestling me down. |
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She wrinkled her nose and twisted her mouth in that appealing grimace of hers, then silently nodded and opened the door part-way. |
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She slipped her fingers in and drew out a finely wrought red-gold chain made up of many thin links joined together in a twisted rope. |
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His investigation reveals a twisted labyrinth of deception and betrayal, with remorseless vixen Kitty Collins at the center. |
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She twisted her laced handkerchief into a knot then cast her nervous gaze out the window. |
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He was stretchered off with a twisted knee during yesterday's game at Tannadice and is unlikely to play for Rangers again this season. |
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The bodies were laid out in a neat row, each wrapped in a shroud of black plastic, next to the twisted wreckage of the bus. |
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The bagel is defined as a hard bread roll made of yeast dough twisted into a doughnutlike shape, cooked in simmering water and then baked. |
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A plant with aster yellows develops weak, yellowing leaves and twisted or distorted stems and flowers. |
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Stunted, twisted growth and oddly distorted flowers are the symptoms of aster yellows, a disease which often shows up in midsummer. |
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Everywhere he looked twisted beams loomed up out of the sand like monoliths, the only remnant of a destroyed civilization. |
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Here, however, momentary escape into the wild blue yonder gives way to reality as his body is found amongst the vehicle's twisted wreckage. |
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The fibers are twisted into ropes and sprayed with natural latex, which increases their elasticity. |
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Likewise, the polar opposite of collectivism, capitalism, could be twisted in a similar method. |
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The egg-sacs are deposited in twisted leaves or may be directly attached to a leaf. |
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Unfortunately, I was a restless sleeper and had my legs twisted in my sheets. |
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Michael twisted painfully out of the way and swung his sword left-handed in an awkward but powerful arc. |
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His eyes flashed with anger and he grabbed Willis' wrist and twisted it behind his back. |
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Today she lay on her back and looked up at the gray sky through the twisted branches of the oak. |
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Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement. |
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He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile. |
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I felt like I'd just finished a roller coaster ride that I hadn't realized twisted upside down several times and now I wanted to heave. |
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In contrast to hair follicles of nonaffected littermates, the follicles of mutants were curved and twisted randomly, thus producing wavy hair. |
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We do build twisted aluminium wire armatures which are used for models with simple or limited movement. |
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She twisted a lock of her honey-colored hair around her finger and fluttered her eyelashes at me, pouting her soft full lips to look enticing. |
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She laughed to herself as she stepped directly behind Liam and twisted his chair around. |
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What begins with hope and freshness in each case quickly degenerates into something twisted and rotten. |
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Drake grabbed a handful of his hair and twisted cruelly just as he finished tying off the rough bandage. |
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You've really fallen if you're understanding his twisted logic, a little voice in her brain pointed out. |
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Tony Flinn is showing off a fork, the handle bent into an arch, the tines twisted and elongated, which he bought from a local artisan. |
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Small, pale brown leaves covered the ground, and the tortured mesquite trunks twisted and cracked on their upward ascent. |
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The ashen face in the bed twisted in pain, pale lips parting and pressing together. |
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I twisted to try and knock her hands away and ended up wincing as skin pulled and she pushed me back, rucked my shirt up a bit higher. |
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The throttles were twisted to the stops, and everyone stayed in the low gear to make as much noise as possible. |
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Arches hide studded oak doors, twisted iron grilles, smooth door lintels with faint carvings of faces, tools, dates. |
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Her lustrous dark hair was twisted into a sophisticated French chignon at the base of her neck. |
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Roxanne sighed as she twisted her luxuriant dark brown hair into a knot at the back of her head. |
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Miko caught the blade with his left sai and twisted it, forcing the sword out of the man's hands. |
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After his short speech, he took to flight, hopping from the platform as he twisted towards the train. |
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Her mind was a twisted and tangled web of emotions, changing every time she thought she liked someone. |
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His head was thrown back, and his hair was crusted with dried blood and twisted in nasty tangles behind him. |
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He pushed his fingers through the damp tangles and twisted the ends with his fingertips. |
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Place skinny little taper candles and twisted glass icicle ornaments in others. |
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I've been around the block enough times to know better than give credibility to these twisted taradiddles. |
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The movie is a twisted satire on the feel-good genre in which an estranged family member returns to the fold and redeems himself. |
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Nerves were taut and bodies turned and twisted under the scratchy blankets. |
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There is something deeply twisted in the human make-up that allows them to relate to animals more than people being treated like animals. |
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As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face. |
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I was meaning to get an ice cold one to wake me up, but I twisted the wrong faucet because I scalded myself getting in. |
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I twisted my wrist from his grip, eyes tearing for the second time this month, and glared at him murderously. |
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Her face twisted up and Avi had to take the steaming mug from her hands before she spilled it and burned herself. |
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It's great here, short turf, long views, scree, caves and stream, and parallel and looming 300 feet above, a twisted limestone scar. |
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Smoke twisted from the jaws of the stack, the big wheel turned, slowly at first, gathering momentum and speed. |
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Yellowing, twisted foliage with tiny webs appears on susceptible species including gardenias, scheffleras, ivy, and roses. |
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A car, which had been going into their general direction, slammed it's brakes and twisted into a telephone pole, narrowing missing them both. |
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It has to be designed to be crushed, bent, telescoped and twisted yet capable of popping open and straightening out again without breaking. |
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On the other hand, in polar conjugated systems such as protonated Schiff bases the funnel shows a structure with just one twisted double bond. |
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If you're bored with Hollywood blockbusters and want a change from feel-good schmaltz, then I'd recommend this twisted family fairy tale. |
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Mr. Reubens twisted the simple band of gold once, twice, three times to the right upon his left fourth finger. |
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In addition, each lobe is somewhat twisted so that it gives the superficial impression of a terete structure that is stigmatic everywhere. |
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The twisted columns of Bernini's baldacchino above Saint Peter's tomb, as yet not found, do not announce his resurrection. |
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Kaiyo's body twisted on the floor, paws scrabbling at the tile, tails flaring as if casting a spell. |
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His brain was scrambled, a mess of hash browns, but some twisted force kept him moving. |
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Her chin scraped against the rough bark of a fallen tree trunk and her arm twisted painfully beneath her. |
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Her ears twisted round to the sound of scraping at the door, her eyes now fully awake narrowed as she remembered the dumbness of dogs. |
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My heart twisted painfully and the marble floor below me seemed to spin into an incomprehensible blur of beige and maroon. |
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I didn't have the screwed-up childhood or soul-wrenching angst or any other useful twisted motivation for soloing. |
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A scribbly pencil line cut through the clumps of paint or twisted around the perimeter. |
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Filaments are typically tightly twisted and bundled, but may become separated in the middle part of the thallus. |
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Her beautiful face was twisted into a mask of rage and she was continually shouting obscenities at us in that terrible voice. |
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She stared at the twisted barbed wire fence, that must have been knocked over long ago. |
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The road twisted and turned up and around the mountains, and soon I was surrounded by thick forest. |
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Many mobile homes were reduced to piles of matchwood and twisted aluminium. |
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She twisted her body to compensate as she was thrown and landed awkwardly on her chest, leaving her retching for breath and seeing stars. |
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Grunting, I twisted my head and spied a few fallen fragments of scale, each one a dull matt black. |
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The wire is then threaded through the screws, stretched taut and twisted until secure. |
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The roots of the tree were gigantic and twisted about the garden creating a tangled maze. |
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The glittering threads of rivers twisted their way to the sea and Hayes could just make out the lighter wash where they discharged sediment. |
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He had spun and twisted until the perspiration poured from him in a seemingly endless stream. |
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They were all quite beautiful, especially his gowns with basket weave and twisted front detailing. |
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He smiled at Chrissy through the car window as he squirted the last pennyworth in and twisted the petrol cap back on. |
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Or do you interpret it as more twisted and ironic, a bitter medley of weather criticism, tourist blurb, and the locals' proud assertions? |
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Every few metres the cat stopped and twisted its head around, focussing its yellow eyes on me, checking to see if I was still in pursuit. |
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But despite these varying degrees of success, the three twisted tales meld together smoothly, forming one perfectly disturbing anthology. |
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Christopher clenched his jaw and reached out, shutting his eyes tight as he twisted the handle and jerked the door open. |
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In his twisted world, this mild exposition is a tissue of lies, misrepresentations, and abuse of power. |
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There were twisted bedsteads, snatches of curtain and other remnants of four civilian houses. |
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They were toeless elegant black satin heels with straps that twisted around her ankles and toes. |
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She had her hair twisted into knots at the back of her head and she was dressed in a black serge with grey satin. |
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A colossal black serpent, with a dragon's head, wings, and legs, was twisted around itself like a giant knot. |
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She had a soft Irish accent and a mop of light brown hair twisted into a loose topknot. |
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This is partly because the hip must be dislocated and, thus, the vein will be torqued and twisted to prepare the femur for the implant. |
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Some species reverse torsion, but evidence of having passed through a twisted phase can be seen in the anatomy of these forms. |
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Andy twisted her lips in a wry smile and tossed her dyed black hair over her shoulder. |
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It depicts a world of violence, greed and corruption peopled by hookers, bent and not so bent cops and twisted violent lunatics. |
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He understands only too well that nature is a sham and can be twisted every which way by the forces of evil. |
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Sounding at times like a drunken pop song, the title track is in fact an exhilaratingly happy and twisted piece of work. |
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But the whole thing was such a cynical mix of half-truths, untruths and twisted logic that it ended up besting me. |
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She stopped smiling and looked at him with a twisted mouth, like she'd just sucked on a lemon. |
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Toe plates are then cut from sheet metal, and pieces of iron are hammered and twisted into shape to form soles and heels. |
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Glass shatters and the metal gate, twisted beyond recognition, is thrown against the now shrapnel-pocked wall of the house. |
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His shin bone was all twisted out at a peculiar angle, and there was blood staining the cloth of his pants. |
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We walked through endless marble corridors that twisted and turned with many branches leading from the main thoroughfare. |
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It's for your own good, and for the good of society, that dangerous and twisted individuals such as this miscreant student are incarcerated. |
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There is a moment of anxiety as Hills dismounts immediately after the line but it transpires that the filly has just twisted a shoe. |
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Clearing twisted a shoe on his way to the post and caused a 15-minute delay while a farrier made the repair. |
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His face twisted into a mix of nervousness and miserableness and he finally walked over and sat down, leaning against the bed. |
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Long, slow trip hop electronic groovery in the classic title song of his latest album sets up long and twisted but memorable melodic phrases. |
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She tried to cry out as twisted metal and glass bit into her back, but his weight was suffocating. |
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Like threads twisted together to form a rope, the possible flight paths formed tubes in space. |
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He hit the ground running, bum-rushing a pirate that took cover behind a twisted engine from an old-style shuttlecraft. |
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I twisted Billy's statement to demonstrate that money talks, and therefore gives its bearer power that others lack. |
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It is a strong ligament but can be sprained or completely torn when the straightened leg is twisted at the same time as being knocked sidewards. |
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This allows the steel to be twisted like a rope before additional hammering draws it to the flat configuration needed for a knife blank. |
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She clutched her wrist that was twisted in an odd angle and was in extreme agony. |
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The gold curled and twisted in the wondrous shape of a serpent, its shimmering scales glinting in the candlelight. |
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The bottomless cage, made of metal tubing bent and twisted in a whimsical fashion, originally housed a mannequin perched on a swing. |
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The Chamber Maid consists of a flexible steel cable, stout enough to be twisted and turned, but pliant enough to contort into the chamber. |
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A Flemish string can be twisted far more than an endless loop type, so brace adjustment for this style of string has a much greater range. |
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I could hear it sing out and howl as the metals within twisted and bent, flexing with the current. |
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So Hunab Ku twisted the boughs into the shape of a man, and he breathed upon it and set it on Earth. |
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Her dark tresses were twisted into an oddly shaped bun with two chopsticks sticking from them. |
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Standing up, he twisted his right hand into the shape of a phone and waggled it in front of his ear. |
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I realized he had concocted some fictional chain of events in his twisted mind. |
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But his police career ended in a welter of accusations that in order to obtain results, he hadn't just bent the rules, he'd twisted them out of shape. |
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All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face. |
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At its widest point, the form is abruptly sliced and then twisted further still, at an acute angle, to face and frame a distant mountain on the horizon. |
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In the mindset of the coexist camp, those abstract beliefs have become twisted things, wrapped up with hate. |
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Elflocks, according to fairy lore, would be considered the mischievous work of fairies which may be matted with mud and twisted to appear much like a traditional dreadlock. |
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She examines him, a corner of her lips quirking in a twisted smile. |
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Bad Blood at The Alhambra is a quick-fire farce featuring twisting plots, twisted characters, rapid action, witty dialogue, ferocious greed and sexual jealousy. |
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He shook his head and a look of sorrow twisted his rugged features. |
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The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human. |
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The money that drugs generate is their way to achieve the American Dream in a sort of twisted Scarface-type of fashion. |
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They rode on through the moors, the fog thickening around them as they passed looming, twisted trees and hulking gray rocks, fuzzy with moss and mist. |
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The Daily Beast sat down with burton to discuss Big Eyes and his beautiful, dark, twisted career. |
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A sneer twisted the woman's handsome features into something dark. |
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He's become a carnival barker in this whole twisted sideshow. |
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I twisted and twitched and writhed, but they wouldn't let me go. |
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Sara bent over her friend, her face twisted by grief and rage. |
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She reached for a jar of rubber cement and twisted off the top. |
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Dig down, and we know why our dark and twisted fantasies of a suffering, angry American underclass have finally come true. |
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Umberto Eco dives deep into the weird, twisted story of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' and risks raising old hates anew. |
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Personal attacks are de rigueur, and facts are useful only insofar as they can be twisted beyond all recognition. |
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This molecule has a structure that is twisted into the shape of a propeller with six blades because of steric interactions among its hydrogen atoms. |
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In a sprain, the ligaments may have been overstretched, twisted or torn. |
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Ms. Debby was a variety of shapes, points twisted at odd angles. |
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He gives a memorably twisted performance, mocking the people he kills. |
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As he twisted the key, Ethan bore down on him, shoelaces flapping, pants cuffs fraying against the pavement, the uncased Strat clamped under one arm. |
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Harry twisted his hands together in his lap, already missing the contact. |
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Dodi, I remember, looked like a mangled marionette, his limbs twisted in impossible positions. |
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Make a twisted cord or use a ribbon, and lace it through the eyelets. |
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This twisted defense of colonialism is as repulsive as it is supremacist and archaic. |
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Though I've never seen a snake forty feet up a telephone pole-straight pine, I have seen black kingsnake about half that high on twisted slash, a smaller pine. |
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Instead they twisted their little lace hankies like a couple of rich old biddies and sniffed and whimpered about how they don't agree with such tawdry sentiment. |
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The wire, which I obtain from Harris Angling, is twisted with a twiddling stick after passing the wire twice through the eye of the swivel or snap link. |
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It twisted and turned to reveal views over waterfalls cascading down canyons, stonewalled fields big enough only for a single cherry or almond tree or a small patch of vines. |
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A squirrel scrambles up the thick, twisted trunk of a mango tree. |
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The bourgeois in the middle, extending his three-cornered hat in the direction of the traveler, has twisted his head and shoulders toward his companion. |
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Yet the research could also be twisted to bolster deep-seated prejudices against the San, probably the most abused and downtrodden ethnic group in southern Africa. |
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He pocketed the cigarettes and twisted the top off the thermos. |
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She twisted the loose tendrils of my hair around her fingers. |
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If the Passover leaflet from 2014 was nothing but a joke, then it was nonetheless a sick and twisted one. |
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Far more likely is every twisted ankle in Dubuque and every fractured humerus in Dallas ending up on the Internet. |
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Later, we hike into Limestone Gorge, through a corroded landscape of dolomite blocks, bizarre limestone tower karsts, twisted Screw Palms and scorched yellow grasses. |
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She meant Plaza Towers Elementary School on the other side of the creek, which had been smashed to rubble and twisted beams. |
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Many trees had fallen over and were lying twisted on the ground. |
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Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Kingbird, and Goldfinch are locked in an twisted triangle of territoriality, and woe betide the bird that stumbles into this gang war. |
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It would've taken away the pain that now twisted inside his guts. |
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Surely, though the best name of all is given to sansevieria hyacinthoides, which grows in a green gaggle of twisted leaves, standing erect like snakes. |
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I bit my trembling lip and twisted a stray lock of coppery hair around my finger as my mind frantically scrabbled for some way out of the problem at hand. |
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It seems to me that these same councillors who declared that there was no money in the kitty to keep the old people's homes open have a twisted sense of priorities. |
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With each passing second his insides twisted and coiled like a snake. |
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Fear was coiling in her stomach and her chest twisted in agony. |
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Caleb twisted himself around once more and kicked Riley in the face, slipping open his lips and busting his nose, causing blood to spill forth from each orifice. |
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A French gastro-psycho-thriller about the psychologically twisted relationship between a young waiter and a pompous, manipulative businessman who hires him as a food taster. |
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Conservatives have also twisted themselves in knots to present themselves as victims of a smear campaign. |
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When did it become okay to use students as pawns in a twisted game? |
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The throwster, by means of a machine, twisted lightly the silk into a slight kind of thread known as singles, and these singles were combined to form tram. |
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However the mother of the murdered 15-year-old said the confession merely twisted the knife as Campbell still refused to say what he had done with her daughter's body. |
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Some of the comments on this very video actually demonstrate their point in a kind of twisted metastatement. |
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A few chunks of twisted metal will identify the delivery vehicles, especially if the bombers forgot to file off serial numbers on the engine block. |
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Early blades were pattern-welded, a technique in which strips of wrought iron and mild steel were twisted and forged together, with the addition of a hardened edge. |
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I twisted a lock of hair around my finger, a nervous habit of mine. |
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In effect, any object that mathematically behaves like a 3-sphere is topologically a 3-sphere, no matter how distorted or twisted its shape may be. |
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But Saints Jason Hooper notched a hat-trick of his own, Sean Long scored a try and kicked seven goals and former Bull Lee Gilmour twisted the knife with a fantastic solo try. |
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The Platinum Pied Pipers have taken music and twisted and scrunched it into Triple P to produce a refreshing, multi-talented, many-layered masterpiece of modern music. |
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The Poincare conjecture belongs to the field of topology, which studies properties that are preserved when a shape is stretched or twisted without tearing. |
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The community are now having to bow and scrape, apologising and reasoning for what four freaks, four statistical anomalies, four twisted and tortured minds have done. |
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The path twisted round and round for what felt like an eternity. |
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There were shrapnel pockmarks from bow to stern, and the main living area was just one enormous cavity of burnt wood, twisted metal and torn cables. |
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The neck is broken by being pulled down and simultaneously twisted back on itself. |
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The aerialists were breathtaking as they spun and danced through the air, and twisted their bodies around ribbons of cloth hanging down from the ceiling. |
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The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes. |
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Her hair was twisted in an elaborate knot at the back of her head. |
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Their bizarre distance from reality, their twisted imputations of malignity, their excess, their luxuriance in defamation and falsehood, are obviously symptomatic. |
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As we excavated this area we found tiny pieces of twisted gold wire, gold foil, and little gold tacks, presumably used to tack the foil onto a wooden object sitting on a post. |
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Morgan's lips twisted and he tossed his sandy brown hair out of his face. |
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With tunes plucked from a twisted psychedelic era, the BJM experience was more than just one of this year's gigs to namedrop. |
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These forces increase with the nanofiber yarn being twisted during the electrospinning process. |
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The P3 module affords greater EMI noise suppression with its added autotransformer to support termination of the unused twisted pair. |
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But 14 per cent have pulled muscles, twisted ankles, broken toes and even slipped discs. |
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The nodding heads are scented with recurved and twisted tepals which range from blue-mauve to deep purple with white to yellow stamens. |
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The trilobed nature of this vessel was further enhanced by being twisted around its vertical axis so that three curvilinear fins are created. |
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Farrell twisted a knee in a tackle with Julien Bardy in the 18th minute of yesterday's contest at the Stade Marcel-Michelin. |
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Amid miles and miles of terrain featuring felled timber and twisted roadsigns, the Cup venue looks magnificent. |
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He twisted his briar pipe, between the two buttons on his longjohns, ran on deck and joined others scrambling down a rope. |
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Now Hareide has twisted the knife further by claiming Europa League rivals Molde can take advantage of Celtic's lack of fitness. |
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And Gunners legend Paul Merson twisted the knife by claiming Jose Mourinho would never allow his teams to collapse in the same spineless style. |
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Drogba's hat-trick twisted the knife in Sporting after his opener had secured a hefty long-term loss on the Golden Boot market. |
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A brilliantly twisted take on the Frankenstein tale with a touch of David Cronenberg-style body horror for good measure. |
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The Finn scrumptiously pulled down Josh Magennis' deep cross and twisted inside in the one move before slotting home. |
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Larry pressed his red nose against the glass and twisted his blue tail into a curlicue. |
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There were also spruce pine, red oak and white oak, hickory, and the twisted reddish trunks of sparkleberry. |
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Once again the guffaws and pure glee of ceramists were infectious as they heard their native tongue being subversively twisted into a witty tale. |
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Laid rope, also called twisted rope, is historically the prevalent form of rope, at least in modern western history. |
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Dorsal spine curved slightly proximally and distally straight and slightly twisted anticlockwisely. |
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Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith. |
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The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard. |
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Fortunately, all of the Burtonesquely twisted trees down the rabbit hole were computer-generated, and knew their boundaries. |
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Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes. |
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Probably some twisted little cyberfreak getting his anonymous fifteen minutes. |
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She had put a daffodowndilly behind each ear, and twisted a dandelion chain around her neck. |
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A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick. |
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B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous. |
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And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler. |
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She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle. |
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The jenny produced a lightly twisted yarn only suitable for weft, not warp. |
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Just as Petrarch had twisted the meaning of light versus darkness, so the Romantics had twisted the judgment of the Enlightenment. |
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She had twisted a piece of heather into her mail box for good joss, and this was the safety signal. |
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He twisted his ankle while playing king of the hill and was not allowed to play again. |
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The law also applies when a stretched steel wire is twisted by pulling on a lever attached to one end. |
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Two muscular merguards twisted my arms behind my back and tangled my legs in seaweed. |
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Stronger muscles on wrist can prevent wrists from being twisted at swings, while stronger shoulders increase the turning force. |
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If the DNA is twisted in the direction of the helix, this is positive supercoiling, and the bases are held more tightly together. |
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If they are twisted in the opposite direction, this is negative supercoiling, and the bases come apart more easily. |
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These include a twisted skein of Heather, one of a very few known examples of Neolithic rope, and a wooden handle. |
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These scats are black and twisted and can be confused with those of the fox, except that they reputedly have a floral odor. |
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The base of each leaf is twisted a variable amount so that the leaves are nearly coplanar. |
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He had a trademark of twisted chimney stacks, many of which can be seen on the buildings in the city centre. |
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Even if it is pop music with a hard edge and quite a twisted little view of life. |
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There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud. |
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The coastal town of Filey in Yorkshire was worst hit, with the spire of a church being twisted by the tremor. |
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Perceiving that personalities were not out of order, I asked him what species of beast had long ago twisted and mutilated his left ear. |
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The flukes of sirenians are raised up and down in long strokes to move the animal forward, and can be twisted to turn. |
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A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form. |
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An additional drawback of twisted construction is that every fibre is exposed to abrasion numerous times along the length of the rope. |
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Plaited rope is made by braiding twisted strands, and is also called square braid. |
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It is less prone to kinking than twisted rope and, depending on the material, very flexible and therefore easy to handle and knot. |
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Lisle is composed of two strands that have each been twisted an extra twist per inch than ordinary yarns and combined to create a single thread. |
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Using two sets of rollers that travelled at different speeds, yarn could be twisted and spun quickly and efficiently. |
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With rotor spinning, the fibers in the roving are separated, thus opened, and then wrapped and twisted as the yarn is drawn out of the rotor cup. |
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Its rival, the throstle frame or ring frame uses a continuous process, where the roving is drawn, twisted and wrapped in one action. |
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Spinning at differing speeds, these pulled the thread continuously while other parts twisted it as it wound onto the heavy spindles. |
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Yarn is composed of twisted strands of fiber, which are known as plies when grouped together. |
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She twisted her head away from him and stared at the scabrous papered wall beside the bed. |
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The seawolf twisted onto itself, its jaws clopping together near its own tail. |
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She twisted out from under the claim of his palm to settle her feet on the floor. |
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Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone. |
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It was her nose was the worst. It seemed to have been twisted into a hook with a twiddly bit at the top. |
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The projecting portion of tumour must be seized with a strong volsella, and dragged and slightly twisted until removed. |
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