Example sentences for: subverts

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

  • 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.

  • But it is the breakdown of decorum, the rejection of a social value that everyone knows is necessary, yet proscribed, that the relajo subverts.

  • 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.

  • It subverts reforms in the Pentagon's culture of waste and inefficiency.


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