Слово "twist". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

can be twisted into something very dark and tragic.

Right now, Harry was in a shop expensive enough to display in the twisting main street of Diagon Alley.

Mouth somehow twisted.

The District Attorney remembered only too vividly the example of Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, the government witness who had “fallen” out of a sixth-floor window of the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island while being guarded by half a dozen policemen.

♫ grew twisted around itself ♫

Almost at once I felt the capsule twist and sway, then steady down so that my weight was on my back... weight that built up quickly until I was at my full weight (0.87 gee, we had been told) for that planet as the capsule reached terminal velocity for the thin upper atmosphere.

He twisted his head on the pillow, biting his lips and clutching at the blanket feverishly.

He broke a dry twisted twig out of the fence and for a minute traced a curious pattern in the sand with it, then he spoke:

Donatti put the pack on the desk. Then, smiling into Morrison's eyes, he curled his right hand into a fist and began to hammer it down on the pack of cigarettes, which twisted and flattened. A broken cigarette end flew out. Tobacco crumbs spilled.

When a completed product goes back out into society, all fixed up good as new, better than new sometimes, it brings joy to the Big Nurse’s heart; something that came in all twisted different is now a functioning, adjusted component, a credit to the whole outfit and a marvel to behold.

Mouth somehow twisted.

but I order mineral water now with a twist of lemon,

Don't get your panties in a twist.

They are stories with a twist.

a trick with a twist

Because the typical perpetrator is not sick and twisted.

The small boy twisted further into himself.

He felt certain that O'Brien was about to twist the dial out of sheer wantonness.

A dark head, all that could be seen behind the dentist's chair, twisted round.

'They sye that time 'eals all things, They sye you can always forget; But the smiles an' the tears acrorss the years They twist my 'eart-strings yet!'

As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. 'IF I don't take this child away with me,' thought Alice, 'they're sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave it behind?'

So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load.

You had to twist their arms.

John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother “old girl,” too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire; and he was still “her own darling.”

Kropp seizes him just in time, twists the hand sharply behind his back and holds it fast.

Holmes twisted himself round upon the sofa to get a fairer view of the man’s excited face.

The prince twisted himself loose, unconsciously brushed his profaned shoulder, and eagerly said--

The symptoms were favourable.—Instead of answering, Harriet turned away confused, and stood thoughtfully by the fire; and though the letter was still in her hand, it was now mechanically twisted about without regard.

“Yes, it was twisted.”

Men, fallen out from Action Stations, watched with expressionless faces as the motorboat made it back to the Ulysses and hooked on to the falls just in time: the Hotchkiss steering-gear was badly twisted and she was taking in water fast under the counter.

Gad, it makes me feel bad!" His mouth twisted and he laughed mirthlessly. "Me?

"I'll twist your bloody 'ead off if you get fresh with me."

As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. 'IF I don't take this child away with me,' thought Alice, 'they're sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave it behind?'