How to Use warp in a Sentence

warp

1 of 2 noun

• There's a warp in the floorboards.
• Here in the real world, we’d be thrilled with any warp.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2014
• The warp and weft of the fabric's tight weave give it a two-tone effect.
  — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• In 2018, scientists discovered a warp in the disk of the Milky Way.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• The even-weave fabric has the same distance between the warp and weft (over and under) threads.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The best way to think about truth is not in the abstract but in media res, as it is found in the warp and weft of human life.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• Estes deftly marries the warp of sharp outlines to the weft of the wobbly mirage.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• That wrong warp can save a lot of tedious traversal and avoid many threats at the same time.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2022
• Those sheets have now lasted me well over a decade and are still working great with no warps.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• From the perspective of the slower ship, the warp ship will simply appear out of nowhere.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
• Best to remain narcotized and between the Zen warp and weft of high thread-count sheets.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• The systematic warp and weft of the loom, after all, was the template for the first computer.
  — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Thread count is determined by the number of threads lengthwise (called the warp) and widthwise (the weft) in a one-inch square of fabric.
  — Kelley Carter, ELLE Decor, 10 June 2020
• Revealed in this warp and weft is the overlap in the behavioral patterns of humans and wolves, as well as the limits of language.
  — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• And yet the fantasies that Gottlieb’s work indulged are part of the woof and warp of the James Bond novels, a good index of the period’s inner life.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Dotted along the restaurant's walls and ceilings are green warp tubes and yellow mystery boxes, mainstays of the Mario games.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• Ever since Mario's green warp pipe first invaded our living rooms, the Italian plumber has inspired many of the world's most beloved games.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2023
• The two points of view make the book a kind of loom worked between Kellen and Nettle, a warp and weft intersecting to bring a richer image into view.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• Next, assistants soak the warp threads of the textile-to-be in a series of dye vats—up to eight in total—accumulating hues along the way.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
• The world needs another Great Bend, another Kilbyesque warp in the cosmos, to drive the economy.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
• The warp and weft create a reassuring rhythm, shapes and symbols and bands of color serve as signposts, but the path is windy and uncertain.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Moving through headlines at three miles an hour reveals this intimate warp and weft.
  — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• Entanglement, then, may undergird the structure of space itself, forming the warp and weft that give rise to the geometry of the world.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• But Bourdain’s brashness came with an immense humility that really made up the warp and weft of his TV shows.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
• Finally, when the Technicolor warp is ready, loom operators stretch it taut and gird it with a cotton or silk weft.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
• Citing some long-winded reason for his ability to assume command of the Discovery, the ship warps (and doesn't jump) to the location in question.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
• Tizon’s account does not grasp the extent of Pulido’s erasure, but that inability highlights just how slavery warps both the enslaver and the enslaved.
  — Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• The neighborhood offers plenty of inviting spots to grab a bite or a drink, such as the classic Café Paraíso, a time-warp eatery retaining the humble vibe of mid-century days.
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2019
• But while the district’s central thoroughfare, Grant Avenue, lined with sleepy gift shops, remains frozen in a tourist-trap time-warp, new signs of life were stirring in the area even before China Live opened last spring.
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 2 May 2018
• Connecting what's inside our heads to what is outside our bodies requires a holistic approach, one that knits into a seamless cloth the warp of the computational and the weft of the sensory.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2020

warp

2 of 2 verb

• The heat caused the wood to warp.
• The wood was warped by moisture.
• He held prejudices that warped his judgment.
• Steel ridges jutted from its side, warped by the shock of the blast.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
• Sometimes your board will warp, even with the best of care.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2023
• Moving the bars too far apart could cause the plastic to warp.
  — Field & Stream Commerce Team, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• Years of hard service on bumpy roads can warp their screws and bolts.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
• The best sheets won't warp when introduced to high heat.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2022
• The galaxy itself is warped like the brim of a beat-up cowboy hat.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• To warp — indeed, to negate — the meaning of genocide: nasty.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• The elastic in tights can be warped and loosened by the heat, causing tights to lose their shape.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
• These stem cells are edited with exa-cel in the lab to delete the snippet of DNA that causes the cells to warp.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Black mold crept along the walls and ceilings; water damage warped the floors.
  — Chris Moody, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Politics, taken to an extreme, can do the same: warp the mind, twist the soul — all that.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022
• Marking the entrance to one shop was a stack of books run through with a sword, their pages warped from years of sun and rain.
  — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• Trains ran at reduced speeds out of concern that the heat could warp railways.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
• To warp the words of a great American poet, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and a freight train headed our way.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
• The effects of that trauma can warp the way a child sees the world, Mathies-Dinizulu said.
  — Chris Hacker, Aparna Zalani, Jose Sanchez, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Susanna is gettin’ it on with the Count — which warps the story.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
• This strategy doesn’t warp the play so much as deepen it.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Keep reading: Climate change is warping the ground our cities are built on, a new study says.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• And ableism can warp the instincts and habits of disabled as well as non-disabled people.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• To further avoid warping, be sure to spread food evenly over the pans and bring them up to heat slowly.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
• Thermal shock is hard on metal and could warp pans and shorten their lives.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• What to Consider The leather might get warped in the wash, so try spot cleaning as your first line of defense against stains.
  — Marissa Miller, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
• Amtrak slowed trains on its Cascades service, worried the heat would warp the tracks.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 July 2021
• The trick is using lighter colors to ward off fading and warping.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2023
• Even with the way the pandemic warped our perception of time, that’s a long gap between movies.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
• Scars can change over time, twisting or warping, changing the appearance of the face.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• The team members swarm around it, peering intently at the contents: large, twisted pieces of metal, some scorched and warped by fire, and several mysterious sections of black rubber.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2024