Example sentences for: twisted

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

  • Some of the greatest artists burrow so deeply into their characters' twisted psyches that they risk making a case for "the dark side."

  • Someone with a limp was likely to be called some variation of Zoppo (lame), Torti , or Storti (torto twisted), Gamba or Gambaccini (gamba leg), or Ciampa (ciampare to stumble).

  • 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.

  • The rehabilitation of Strom and Jesse is Washington politesse of the worst sort, a twisted Inside-the-Beltway version of ancestor worship.

  • Pundits agreed that the GOP won the battle and lost the war: Gingrich's ethics case will drag on through congressional hearings; the GOP will then force the House Ethics Committee to close the case, enabling Democrats to cry "cover-up" for months afterward; members will have to vote again on his punishment; he'll be distracted, tarnished, and weakened; having lost prestige and twisted arms just to get re-elected, he'll have no clout left to keep his troops in line; the Republican policy agenda will languish; Gingrich will be forced to make concessions to Clinton in order to pass legislation and repair his own image; and, above all, Democrats will sing from Gingrich's rap sheet throughout the coming hearings on Clinton's ethical troubles.


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