How to Use distorted in a Sentence

distorted

adjective
  • As a result this can cause the rearview camera image to flicker or become distorted.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • Fixing the state’s distorted water system for an era of climate change will be the work of many decades.
    Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The idea was to put more of a modern twist on this older sound, with the hazy, fuzzy synths, the drone-y guitar and the real distorted drum machine.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 24 June 2024
  • Pageant moms believe the media look through a distorted lens.
    Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2022
  • In the center of the picture, under one of the watches, is a distorted human face in profile.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
  • As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • Enter nyxy nyx and their distorted psych goth, informed by a beloved local band but made all their own.
    Maria Sherman, SPIN, 26 June 2023
  • Still, many marketers have a distorted picture of spending by age group.
    Mauro F. Guillén, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • If left untreated, small tears in the retina can progress from blurred or distorted vision to full blindness—a curtain drawn across the world.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But the band, like Snail Mail in the days of yore, reminds us that the distorted chug of slightly unsettling indie rock is just about the perfect soundtrack to teenage girlhood.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Thoughts can be hard to tame, and when left to run wild, our brains can invent some truly distorted versions of reality.
    Cicely Simpson, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The heads and shoes of the two leaders were slightly distorted, for example, and the room’s interior didn’t match the room where the actual meeting took place.
    Arijeta Lajka, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Everything is designed to look like the early ’60s, only through a distorted lens.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024
  • And in the third movement, Del Tredici lets his late ’60s freak flag fly, with percussion blasts and woolly lines for distorted electric guitar and bass.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Backed by rapper Tobe Nwigwe and dancers in , the gospel-funk hybrid track — buoyed by Timberlake’s distorted vocals — went over like gangbusters with the crowd.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2024
  • There can be all sorts of distorted thoughts that can happen ... because in reality, your world has just been just been shattered.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There is no obvious single, the lyrics don’t make immediate sense, most of the tracks are too slow, distorted, or weird for radio, and the whole thing sounds like nothing that sells.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 June 2023
  • Whether the metal takes the forms of a distorted checkerboard or two concentric circles joined by a slash, the patterns are dynamic and the color contrasts vivid.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Point a funhouse mirror at an ordinary, by-the-numbers rock-and-roll biopic, and the distorted reflection will look an awful lot like Elvis.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The mirror is made of high-quality float glass, which means there’s never a distorted reflection.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Aphids are sucking insects that draw large quantities of plant sap, causing leaves and stems to become distorted.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Here’s the logline: The infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after the suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 July 2024
  • Water could enter into the rear-view camera which can cause the rear-view camera image to appear on the display or show a distorted image.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • Water could enter into the rear-view camera which can cause the rear-view camera image to appear on the display or show a distorted image.
    USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Around the turn of the millennium, the captcha tool arrived to sort humans from bots based on their ability to interpret images of distorted text.
    Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Tokenization seems to be the root of the issue of this distorted narrative of inclusion.
    Essence, 19 Apr. 2024
  • They, too, are stretched at unnatural angles because of the distorted video.
    Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At roughly the same time, a security camera from a nearby home picked up distorted audio of a whimpering sound and a loud thud.
    Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Love Has Won was a hall of such mirrors, a series of distorted reflections, all created in the image of their divine goddess.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The result is a magnified, distorted image of the background object.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022

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