A twisted chain of reasoning leads him to merge Sears with the myth of the Rat King, a huge, dominant rat that, in the popular imagination, can be found at the head of a seething rat mob.

For the fleet of fired brigantines bore downwind still, chivvied onward by the gusts into a spark-torn, twisted chain of wreckage.

She drank from cupped hands, then took from the breast of her jerkin a disc of metal depending from a twisted chain.

Her left earlobe was encased in silver hoops that draped a twisted chain around and under her pointed chin to her other ear where it was affixed with a single thumb-size stud.

These shenanigans in the Wunderkind account were one more interim link in the long, twisted chain.

The machines shown employ the Gibbs rotary twisted chain stitch mechanism which was less prone to coming undone.

But neither man knows about the twisted chain of lies and corruption that led to Kelly's death-or the shocking revelations that were meant to go with her to a watery grave.

He turned his head slowly and stared at me, and when I had repeated my words, at the twisted chain about his right hand.