twist

Twist the tourniquet tighter.

a sharp twist in the path.

a twist in one's nature

twisting wire into a loop.

twist off a dead branch.

Twist the lid to open it.

a day of arm-twisting by government whips.

the twists and turns in the passageways.

he twisted himself free.

a man with a twisted mind.

Too much force will twist the key.

a twisted skein of lies.

twist flowers in one's hair.

twisted off the bottle cap.

twist one's mouth into a wry smile.

The trauma twisted the child's outlook.

a twist of fate; a story with a quirky twist.

an odd twist to his character.

But satellite pictures have revealed a surprising twist.

His writing has a legal twist about it.

I believe that a joke is a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist.

Harris did a Harris twist. - Love it.

Fear twists facts into fiction that becomes indistinguishable from ignorance.

There's one more twist to the delegate story.

Mr Levi's thesis has an unusual twist.

Did you think that that was a twist?

And some of these cases have interesting twists.

No, Kate, now you're twisting my words.