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Example sentences for: subverts

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

But it is the breakdown of decorum, the rejection of a social value that everyone knows is necessary, yet proscribed, that the relajo subverts.
It subverts reforms in the Pentagon's culture of waste and inefficiency.
Or, to be more elegant here (in keeping with the spirit of your own mandarin replies), you might say that the piece subverts the tradition of staged photography, blasting a hole through the cold, calculating heart of '90s art.
The mechanisms whereby HIV-1 subverts cell-cycle controls in infected renal epithelium have been unclear.
A joke sets up a chain of logic, and then subverts it in a surprising and delightful way; that's the punch line.