Example sentences for: twisted

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

  • 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).

  • In the final shot, a twisted tree grows on the waterline of the beach, the cycle of life beginning anew.

  • This is an otherworldly fantasy of twisted limestone hundreds of millions of years old, the world’s largest natural stone maze.

  • Note: this is an example of a “HobsonJobson”—foreign words or expressions twisted into a more familiar configuration by the pervasive influence of linguistic chauvinism, a rich source of onomatoplazia.

  • Readers who want to see how memory of the Holocaust is being twisted in the service of a contemporary political cause should turn to the August issue of Commentary and examine some of the passages I quote from the writings of Joan Ringelheim, director of education at the U.S.


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