That was hard, with a body distorted by polio, a hunchback, and eighty-odd years.

He caught a glimpse of his own figure: the tall body distorted by a sloppy, sagging posture, as if in deliberate negation of human grace, the thinning hair, the soft, sullen mouth.

At first she and the audience stared bluntly at her no-longer-young nude body distorted in a trio of fun-house mirrors.

The woman's body, distorted out of recognition, was cast aside; tumbling, it impacted softly with the Deck.

She was in the prime of her womanhood, her body not yet distorted by childbearing; although her belly was luscious as a ripening fruit her waist was narrow as a lad's.

She died calmly, though in great pain, her beautiful body distorted by cancer.

PACKED beneath stressed jerseys, with bodies distorted like images from a fun-house mirror, N.F.L. players understand that excess pays in a league with an elastic waistband.

He leaned forward in an unnatural stance, his body distorted by the large hump of flesh that deformed his back and right shoulder.

Jude remembered how the removal of a traveler from this world into another looked from the outside: the flesh folding upon itself, the body distorted out of all recognition.

Through the peephole, I could see a man, his body distorted by the glass.