Sentence Examples

1. The child turned his head to fix dark eyes upon her, and his lips parted in a rictus grin.
2. Her mouth was smeared with blood, her lips peeled back in a rictus of pain the fires of her eyes began to dim.
3. He offered her a one-shouldered shrug, his mouth twisting into a rictus of a smile.
4. The Miracle Child was still standing a grotesque statue with a twisted face, frozen in a wild rictus.