How to Use out of shape in a Sentence

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Definition of out of shapenext
  • If your socks have any holes or are stretched out of shape, throw them out.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The yield curve is more than just a little bent out of shape at the moment.
    — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But many people there didn’t seem that bent out of shape.
    — Oleg Matsnev Marc Santora Thomas Gibbons-Neff Alan Rappeport Marc Santora Richard Pérez-Peña John Ismay Gaia Pianigiani Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Even though the leather of this bag is very soft, the shape of the bag is not squeezed out of shape after loading things in.
    — Jenna Clark, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Goldie Hawn is all bent out of shape about being asked to play a mother in a movie.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Bring several with you in case one of them gets soiled or bent out of shape.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The elastic cell walls have the tension of an archer’s bow, bent out of shape but held in place by an external force.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • Harden came in a trade out of shape after forcing his way out of Houston.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Askren, never much of a puncher during his MMA career, looked slow, old and out of shape.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2021
  • His spork’s prongs haven’t dipped or bent out of shape, and its body still seems sturdy—proof that aging will be kind to this utensil.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Action stars used to be believably scaled, if not outright out of shape.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The bit about coming into training camp out of shape is a little alarming.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2021
  • The blind slats are bent out of shape, broken or warped from humidity or heat damage.
    — Jodhaira Rodriguez, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Also this past week, Carter wasn’t able to finish drills at Georgia’s pro day after showing up out of shape.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The first-ever State of the State’s Housing Market paints a picture of a market bent out of shape to historic proportions, in part due to the pandemic.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Even though his runners came into the season out of shape, Baker thinks that his team can still contend for a state championship this year.
    — Jeremiah Sosa, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Samanic appeared to be out of shape in preseason action.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
  • This powerful northern maelstrom grabs the magnetic field lines diving into the north pole, bends them out of shape, and spins them about.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The resulting recordings were echoing, distorted, ghostly; twisted out of shape and out of time.
    — Frances Badalamenti, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2022
  • While there was a tremendous amount of publicity surrounding Guerrero’s loud bat that fall, there was just as much discussion of his out of shape and hefty frame.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Everyone who was bent out of shape with the condition of the field during the preseason can rest a little easier if this new surface holds up.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Doncic later admitted to starting the season out of shape after taking a post-Tokyo Olympics break that summer.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But in January and early February, the flow of the vortex weakened significantly and got stretched out of shape.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Some officers were so out of shape that the military budgeted $1.5 million to re-size standard uniforms.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • The Hollywood gossip mill soon kicked into high gear, with reports of on-set clashes between Lin and Diesel, alleging the star was out of shape, struggled with his lines, and was often late to set.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Imagine a broken machine on an assembly line, twisting a piece unusably out of shape.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The aluminum fins on the refrigerator and window air conditioner units can easily be bent out of shape while cleaning them.
    — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Switch to Baja for cutting loose off road and all the systems go in to attack mode, including a lenient stability-control system that gently steps in only when the truck starts to get way out of shape.
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Rival evaluators felt Davis was out of shape early in the season after the Lakers’ compressed offseason.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
  • That’s where members of the #LigaMXEng community got together to celebrate the beautiful game (and come to terms with how out of shape many of us actually are).
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021

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