Use "rictus" in a sentence

1. Dumbfounded, he stared at the object that grinned its rictus smile from a plinth under

2. Dumbfounded, he stared at the object that grinned its rictus smile from a plinth under the only electric light in the corridor

3. She was standing frozen to the fore deck in a rictus that would not let her breathe, knowing she should run and unable to do so

4. She imagines the tip of the needle breaking skin, sliding into muscle, the bulge where the liquid pools as she presses on the plunger, and the spasms, a face, a rictus grin

5. That familiar rictus, so similar to laughter

6. It is this figure and his bizarre, rapturous rictus that the mottled Mungo sees looming out of the Mist at him, at about the same level as the crow's nest

7. The dream ended when, with a rictus expression of insanity, Sebastian threw in a stick of dynamite

8. Loofah noticed a face in the rear-view mirror – deathly white skin stretched tight, mouth pulled into a rictus grin of terror – and hoped it wasn't him

9. It was a wide, manic and utterly humourless rictus that was the sort of grin that is normally accompanied by small riverside birds wandering in and out picking scraps out of the teeth

10. His mouth was twisted in a rictus of concentration

11. Wulfric marched through the village like the angel of death, fists clenched at his sides, staring straight ahead, his face twisted into a rictus of fury

12. Runner’s victory rictus, that Halloween smile, faded, and he nodded twice, and as he was turning to the bar, snapped, “Fine, but then stay out of my business

13. Its horses, goats, antelopes, zebras, speared through their spines with brass javelins, hung contorted as in a death rictus, asking mercy with their fright-coloured eyes, seeking revenge with their panic-coloured teeth