How to Use distort in a Sentence

distort

verb
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  • The sound of the guitar was distorted.
  • Heat caused the plastic to distort.
  • The story was distorted by the press.
  • She felt he was distorting the facts.
  • Her face was distorted by pain.
  • The loss of both her parents at an early age distorted her outlook on life.
  • The odd camera angle distorted her figure in the photograph.
  • But the beauty of the novel is in the cracks that distort the plot.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Kotkin notes how Big Tech and the media can be used to distort the debate.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 June 2021
  • Don’t rub the cologne into your skin, as this can distort the fragrance.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The ugly scoreboard can’t distort the process, which had its strong points.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The closeness of the photo is distorting; the subject is both her and not her at all.
    — Christina Cacouris, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The crystal is slightly domed, but not so much as to distort the dial.
    — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • What was up with Princess Charlotte’s hand, which seemed distorted by the cuff of her sleeve?
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • From hooded lovers to food with eyes, Magritte made art meant to disrupt and distort.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes the screen will go black or the audio will be distorted.
    — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Kaser hits a button, and a doomy, distorted beat floods the room.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • This virus spread by a tiny mite distorts the flowers and causes weird bunches of bright red stems to grow.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 May 2024
  • Through his art, Meris reclaims his own body from a figure that has been distorted by the white gaze.
    — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Through Candy’s case, Love & Death considers how the media and the law distort the truth.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Venus and Neptune’s clash distorts boundaries with loved ones.
    — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • In English and French, about half of the posts deny or distort history.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • The hawk tried again and again, its wings flapping in her face with each try, distorting her view of what was happening right in front of her.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The bass doesn't distort at top volumes, and the lows still have plenty of body at moderate levels.
    — PCMAG, 20 July 2024
  • And that shows just how much Trump has helped distort and upend the Republican Party's sense of right and wrong.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The advice was to avoid offering comments that might distort the case.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2022
  • This effect distorts the data enough to risk drawing the wrong conclusions, in her view.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 July 2024
  • Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host who has gone out of his way to downplay and distort the terrible events of that day, was less than pleased.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The shape of a cluster can be distorted because of the gravitational influence of unseen matter between Earth and the cluster.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Visual cues: Similar to the Ponzo illusion, foreground objects can distort our perception of size and distance, contributing to the illusion of a larger moon.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024

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