Usage examples (7)

• Something groped upward from the floor, swayed in the bluish light, fell writhingly against the pair where they crouched beside the wall.
• Saeid Shanbehzadeh sang, played a flute and danced writhingly around his overtone-rich goatskin bagpipe.
• One of them crawled writhingly over the others, lifted its head and put out its tongue at her: shivering, she opened the letter.
• He pointed at Shelley's rooms as at a certificated angel's feather, but Mr. Wrenn writhingly admitted that he had never heard of Shelley, whose name he confused with