Twists

Examples

• She writhes and twists about like a snake. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The wire is first passed through a series of rapidly revolving, straightening rolls which take out all twists and kinks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Immediately afterwards, he twists him into a public-house and into a parlour, where he confronts him and claps his own back against the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His study of the problem brought him to the development of the modern substation, although the twists that later evolutions have given the idea have left it scarcely recognizable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Wherever there's a pretty woman he always twists himself in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The former twists several strands into a rope, the latter several ropes into a cable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Since Ericsson's day other inventors have made themselves also famous by giving new twists to the tail of this famous fish and new forms to its iron-ribbed body. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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