How to Use warped in a Sentence
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In many places, piles of nails and the warped husks of cars were all that remained.
—John Vaillant, Time, 7 June 2023
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When he’s overwhelmed by the roar of noise in a train station, the sound and video footage get warped and woozy.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
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Over time, the image of Michael Jackson gets changed, warped.
—Christine Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
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But the idea of young people being prudish now is so warped to me.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
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But on the downside, the images will appear in black and white and can come off as grainy or warped.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 28 Apr. 2022
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In what had been the kitchen, a bowed fridge, a warped sink top and a charred oven huddled together.
—Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
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If the wing takes the wrong shape, that flow becomes warped into spirals and vortices.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2011
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The only thing to gripe about is the way it’s constructed so the vinyl stacks flat on top of each other, which may lead to warped LPs.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024
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Those who made it safely to New Orleans sold their wares, then sold the warped wood from their flatboats as scrap.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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The Sparkler galaxy is shown as a warped orange line surrounded by spots of light.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
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In the viral image of Pope Francis, his right hand (and the coffee cup its holding) looks squashed and warped.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
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Lost tapes, warped vinyl records, and scratched CDs have historically been the relics of hip-hop yore.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
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Outside, potholes pocked the parking lot and deep splits formed in warped sidewalks.
—Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2024
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The steel within the bridge was overheated and warped, Eucalitto added.
—Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
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The lot outside is still strewn with piles of rusting rebar, sheets of warped plywood, trash, gravel and tarps flapping in the rain.
—Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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And there does seem to be a sense of warped affection for the fellow family-outsider.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
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The more people there are talking about imposter syndrome, the more the knowledge around the topic becomes warped.
—Forbes, 7 June 2021
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Another major point: the Behr bow doesn't lose its shape or become warped.
—Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 23 Oct. 2022
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More likely, someone will trip over a warped floorboard or fall through one that’s rotted out.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
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In the half-century since, the NCAA has often used its warped version of amateurism to stack the deck against athletes.
—Nick Martin, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2020
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His warped old legs bending beneath him at every stride.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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This may solve the problem of the sticking door, but if the wood is permanently warped, your best bet for how to fix a sticky door is planing the door to fit the doorframe.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2023
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If it’s bowed or warped, whole sections of the materials won’t connect.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2024
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People have complained to Boston officials for years about the warped and torn-up walkways.
—Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
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If your wood is warped or knotted, build the frame and vice or c-clamp the beams together to create a tight seal and let the wood glue bind the piece before layering.
—Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2020
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Enjoy the warped Swarm shell game, treasure Fishback’s performance and join me in waiting to see how the breadth-over-depth approach ages.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
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Along the empty streets of Lahaina, the warped shells of vehicles sit as if frozen in time, some of them still in the middle of the road, pointed toward escapes that were cut short.
—Mike Baker Philip Cheung, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
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How did the internet’s early ideals of truth and democracy become so warped?
—Graham Hacia, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
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Part of what makes One Way Back such an unusual book is the simple fact that the warped afterlives of public survivors are so rarely depicted at all.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 16 July 2024
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There have been some anecdotal reports suggesting that weight loss drugs may be linked to vision problems, including blurred or warped vision.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 3 July 2024
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