Example sentences for: twisted

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

  • A dramatic main portal leads into the church, which boasts two inspired elements of decoration: 17th-century azulejos on the walls, and stone pillars like twisted strands of clay, fragile-looking in spite of their obviously solid dimensions.

  • Greenspan tried to preach higher principles, but both sides twisted his answers to suit their purposes.

  • ' In Scots English (and Burns's songs) reenge (in its variant forms) is a `scouring pad made of the twisted stems of heather,' E. tetralix presumably being best for this purpose.

  • Neither man would formally endorse the other, but when a reporter asked the mayor if he'd specifically urged the governor to run, Bush contorted his arm behind his back and said, "He twisted my.

  • What causes more of a stir is the book's assertion that "given the nature and the magnitude of the crimes committed in its name, communism was fully the equal of Nazism as one of the supreme evils of our century" and the question it raises of whether "the history of the twentieth century hasn't given us objective and final proof … that human nature itself is fallen and twisted at its core" (Scammell).


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