Example sentences for: perversion

How can you use “perversion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It strikes me as a modern-day perversion of ancient Chinese landscape paintings in which people are depicted as miniscule figures at the base of immense mountains and valleys.

  • Right-thinking New Yorkers (and there are far too many of them) agree: This Senate race is a perversion of democracy.

  • Wertham's book led to the adoption of a code of standards by the comic book industry, which included, among other things, an admonition that "sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden."

  • America and its friends oppose a perversion of Islam, not the great world faith itself.

  • I was holding off buying your Gary Coleman gift after reading in USA Today that Drew Barrymore's estranged mother, Jaid, also has a Web site on which she is auctioning off several collections of Drew's baby clothes (including an undershirt decorated with baby chicks ). OK, yes, this seems like a shockingly lowbrow, sociopathically self-serving, egomaniacal betrayal and perversion of the mother-daughter bond until after you hear how touchingly Jaid explains it: "Drew is such a special amazing magical person" she says," that I decided to put some of her things up on the Web site to allow people to be a part of her life."


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