How To Use Warped In A Sentence
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If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
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The shadows warped and distorted as a humanoid shape detached itself.
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The window was warped by the dampness and it wouldn't shut.
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And I rejoice that I was left to deal with the Bible alone; for if I had had some theological "explainer" at my side, he might have tried, as such do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby have warped my moral sense for ever; while the great apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right and justice might have been turned to the base purposes of a pious lampooner of the Papacy.
Science & Education
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Is darling loll head extended on become warped and what does prolapse have to distinguish?
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The bag was beginning to lose its resistance, and so the box was a little warped where the damp had seeped through.
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He might have a slightly warped view of cash at this point.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is more usually caused by discs that are not sitting correctly on the hub or that have been warped by excessive heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The works look distant, remote, slightly warped.
Times, Sunday Times
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The planks they were made of had warped and shrunk. Opposite the door hung a dark-coloured icon with a wax candle sticking to it and a bunch of everlastings hanging down from it.
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A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted.
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Thankfully the fashion gurus have stopped short of the tightly laced stays that warped the ribs of our great grand mothers.
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It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well.
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She used to play the piano but the instrument has been warped by the tropical heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rotors get warped due to several reasons most common being overtorquing or unevenly torquing the lug nuts with an impact wrench.
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It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
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The sub's golden light warped through thick cellular membranes with a peculiar refraction, like interference between two layers of glass.
VITALS
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It was a state of mind where reason appeared to turn in on itself; became warped.
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The boiler had cooled since yesterday, the outer insulating jacket stained and warped from heat.
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I suppose I shouldn't be laughing about death - perhaps I've got a warped mind/sense of humour!
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It was nothing to explain the leakage - the wrecking of the upper works had warped the hull and started the seams - and, for a little, 'twas nothing, with patches and a hose laid to the steam pump, to keep the water back.
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He stooped over the table, pulled a leaf from a warped pocket - book.
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His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals.
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He is one of the country's leading experts on sex offenders, a man who has spent the past two decades delving into the warped minds of killers such as Robert Black and Fred West.
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Escaping relatively unwarped from Rick Jenkins' mesmeric power, he's had a nice career, written some truly inspired stand-up best "Ladies, tell me if this is true" line ever and also been way ahead of the curve with his web presence.
Eugene Mirman
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Women use them as a yardstick for measuring their own attractiveness, thus arriving at a warped perception of their own physical attributes as being hopelessly deficient.
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The consensus among community forums is that the message was probably a warped joke.
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The shiny exterior glimmered in the lights of the bright room and reflected each of their faces in a warped way.
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What he did has warped from the path of the common sense.
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If you want your children to grow up unwarped by Hollywood, will it help to write a book keeps taking swipes at their grandmother?
2009 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Left in the garage where it was damp, the wooden frame had warped.
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Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on.
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That view, however widely it may be propagated, is so warped that it can only raise suspicions about the agenda of those who peddle it.
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Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forget the outlandish demands and warped sense of value.
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Painted in 1520 on thin wood which is now badly warped, it will require delicate and major surgery over the next few months to remove the accretions of time, coal dust and candle smoke.
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She makes a reasonable fist of appearing down-to-earth but every so often, you see how warped the foundations are.
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And whose warped mind is responsible?
Times, Sunday Times
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If calcaneal, sole grows a callosity to let you have bitter taste, first elaborate clip becomes warped the dry skin that come out.
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However, at the date and in the part of the world now dealt with, this great free-trader enjoyed the warm though possibly brief embrace of fame, having no rival, and being highly respected by all who were unwarped by a sense of duty.
Mary Anerley
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But doing what is necessary to live in a warped world is very different from doing what is merely convenient.
Christianity Today
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They pulled open the warped wooden door and stepped into the inky dark of the carousel.
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I suppose I shouldn't be laughing about death - perhaps I've got a warped mind/sense of humour!
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A single warped door that once covered a two-car garage somewhere in suburban California serves as a wall.
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Laurence has a cool question for you: What movie scenes have horribly warped and scarred your psyche?
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Before ten o'clock the adobe wall of the patio was warm enough to permit lingering vacqueros and idle peons to lean against it, and the exposed annexe was filled with sharp, resinous odors from the oozing sap of unseasoned "redwood" boards, warped and drying in the hot sunshine.
Susy, a story of the Plains
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You need a warped sense of humour to do this job.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speaking strictly for myself, when I hear presumptions about America being a Christian nation, and political lip service to warped notions of "Judeo-Christian" values and tradition, something in my BS meeter goes off.
Obama To Address Middle East Issues Today, Courting Jewish Voters In Florida
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I mean human rights afterall is a tricky subject for DeMint to wrap his warped head around.
Think Progress » DeMint Blocks A Wise Lesbian Latina From Serving On The D.C. Superior Court
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We need freedom from our own warped ideas of what is right and what is not.
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The worst aspect of our skewed perspective is our warped view of which judgments matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Social Registry, a local record label that specializes in warped, noisy rock and damaged dance music by the likes of Psychic Ills, Gang Gang Dance and Vietnam, had the second of its two showcases at the Glasshouse Gallery in Brooklyn.
CMJ Music Marathon: Social Registry Thrills; Crowd Disappoints - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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The works look distant, remote, slightly warped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, with this example of a limina, thinking about it, it seems that we might well prefer the determinacy warp unresolved, the quirk left dewarped.
Modality and Hamlet
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If getting paid a couple of million quid a year to wear an unlimited supply of free leisurewear, trainers and football boots is your idea of a hex, you've got a very warped idea of what does and does not constitute good fortune.
World Cup 2010: Spain v Portugal - as it happened
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This gently warped lyricism is soon displaced by ‘electric candyland,’ which is filled with distorted rumbling and overdriven guitar noises ranging from howls to sci-fi lab pulses and whines.
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The door must be warped. It won't close properly.
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When midway through the set four go-go dancers appear, the warped cabaret becomes all too slick and momentum is lost.
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Only blissful ignorance or a warped sense of humour could have seen the bloke returned three times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dave, bless his warped soul, writes an ode to Neil Diamond that must be read to be believed.
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But doing what is necessary to live in a warped world is very different from doing what is merely convenient.
Christianity Today
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Being chronically food-aware has warped us to a greater or lesser extent (can anyone have a totally guilt-free helping of tiramisu?).
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The advantage here is that the action remains true and is not warped by heat treat after machining.
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But when done badly, it changes surroundings and leaves tell-tale signs such as warped furniture.
The Sun
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Let me have young boon companions, witty, unwarped by prejudice, merry to the verge of madness!
The Magic Skin
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By the time Sara had made her delivery - in a rainstorm - tattered Mylar hung forlornly from a warped and woebegone frame.
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Such sonic mayhem envisioned the sounds of madness, neurosis, and warped wit.
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The walls had been painted desert beige, the trim was white, and the hardwood floor was scuffed but unwarped.
The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves
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Critics say the Wiesn has warped from a quaint Volksfest into a cultural wasteland: women in lederhosen, the occasional man in a dirndl, and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton flaunting designer renditions that cost thousands of dollars.
At Oktoberfest, a Controversy Brews Over Racy Designer Dirndls
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Flags made of the best all-wool double-warped U.S. government standard bunting, 45 stars sewn in the field, both sides, with canvas headings, best lacquered brass grummets, and all double stitched.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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the floors were warped and cracked
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It is not just demand for consumer durables that has been warped by Iraq's strange new economy.
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Their warped view of their religion was central to the offences and thus to the story.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the workshop a damaged chest by Hericourt, from 1780, with its warped veneer has been taken apart piece by piece and completely reconstructed.
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It speaks volumes about the warped culture of world football.
Times, Sunday Times
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Experts landed us with a police force which is now so warped in its outlook of its responsibilities that it's no longer a force but a service.
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Bluntly, assertively refusing to comply with their demands withers them, because in their warped emotional environment, one person in each twosome must always dominate, the other be dominated.
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In 1919 the Washington Post applauded "serious cleaning up" of "bewhiskered, ranting, howling, mentally warped, law-defying aliens" and "international misfits," and in subsequent generations we find parallel support for official, well-muscled efforts to make us feel safe by finding an internal enemy that can be attacked.
Michael Roth: Review of Jay Feldman's Manufacturing Hysteria
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The strength of her belief, of her conviction, warped the dream around her.
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It's a pretty warped definition of excellence that includes standing by while up to 1,200 patients die in appallingly inhumane conditions.
The Sun
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Now the warped and twisted tongue began to chant past-participially: "I done!
The Poor Little Rich Girl
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Bush Jr, inevitably; the warped, sometimes demented Nixon; but John F Kennedy, hopelessly in thrall to a world of lust, isn't pavilioned in praise either.
American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton
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It is that modern version - and warped policies that could be collectively called Reaganism - that has given us an unfathomable national debt, a wide gulf between the nation's rich and poor, the denial of basic science on energy and the environment, and which was even used to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq that the real Gipper himself would never undertaken.
Attytood
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The river breaks on cragged rocks, sighs its mists into a callous sky of heat and warped glass.
Blood Quantum
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Waz is a genius of observation; he always used to walk around with his head to the ground and then come back and draw these warped, weird and wired individuals and you'd wonder where they'd come from, but you'd go out next time and they'd all be there, this sea of ghastliness, Shaun of the Dead all around you and you'd think 'how did he see that' and you'd just write around it ...
Talking Comics with Tim: Warren & Gary Pleece | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Prison warps people. Had it warped Kelley enough that he would kill a stranger?
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You need a warped sense of humour to do this job.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this warped environment, an undemocratic opposition movement was born.
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Prison warps people. Had it warped Kelley enough that he would kill a stranger?
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Something amusing I thought of this morning though - I dare say other people have the same warped sense of humour I do and thought of it as well.
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An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys.
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Yemen's judges have pioneered apparently effective ways of ‘deprogramming’ them by arguing them out of their warped view of the world.
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While I usually used this to reduce pops and clicks from scratches, the added dampening from the water would sometimes be enough to hold the needle in the groove on warped records.
Boing Boing: May 14, 2006 - May 20, 2006 Archives
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It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable.
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The slender figures, warped by an obscure anamorphosis, have been salvaged from the darkness, retrieved and figured.
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If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.
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One of those twisted, warped panels got flattened and became the shiplapped back on this.
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Lady Isabella apologised politely, but briefly, for her intrusion, saying: 'My Lord O'Lerney, whose judgment is never in any danger, but where warped by his wish of giving pleasure, insists upon it that you will be less incommoded by a quick forced admission of me than of himself.
Camilla
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Left in the garage where it was damp, the wooden frame had warped.
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Prison warps people. Had it warped Kelley enough that he would kill a stranger?
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The story works like a spell or incantation, lulling you with plausible detail into accepting a slightly warped big picture.
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He said: 'That skunk he smoked warped his mind.
The Sun
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I don't know if it's any good, but at least it has a deliciously warped sense of humor.
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These films are really tame, innocent adventures, offering a real, if occasionally warped view of the South.
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It seemed fitting that when the Warped buses rolled into Florida and the city of Pompano Beach, police issued an edict to ban all onstage profanity.
Fallin’ Up
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The works look distant, remote, slightly warped.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the molding in the hallway is warped and crooked.
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This is more usually caused by discs that are not sitting correctly on the hub or that have been warped by excessive heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dragon's breath misted up the warped glass window, dampening the gray curtains.
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It's also traditional in such circumstances for the possessor of a wicked and/or warped comedy mind to express bafflement that said mind actually belongs to them.
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They had a warped sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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To a right-minded English person, the decolonisation of place names seems reasonable: re-establishing an indigenous geography warped by the British Empire.
Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat
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He warped the wings so quickly that he balanced like an acrobat sitting rockingly on a tight-wire.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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Accuracy went north after the fore stock slightly warped away from the barrel, essentially free-floating it.
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P. S – My mom thinks my mind is warped from the book, but I disagree.
Hylinus lives! – Brian Keene
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_ -- The Peacock Harl -- dubbed with ruddy peacock's harl, warped with green silk, and a red cock's hackle over that.
The Teesdale Angler
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At another house the high-density polyethylene pipe warped by heat was attached to the downlet pipe jutting from the terrace.
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Dave, bless his warped soul, writes an ode to Neil Diamond that must be read to be believed.
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When the dictatorship stepped back from the direct exercise of power, a half-democracy was left in its place, a system designed by the dictatorship and warped by the regime's distortions.
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The wood below the shingles looks warped and the guttering is gapping from it.
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Well, you know, John has a very warped sense of humor, and we're old buddies.
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The bamboo stick warped in water.
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So what if perception is warped by our egos and reality is warped by perception?
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We need to highlight that it is a very warped and perverse sense of honour.
The Sun
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It is a relief to find the remembered intimacy unwarped by time. www. twitter.com/janiceharayda
2009 June « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Hesitant to do this thing which to him, by the strange standard of his warped code, spelled dishonour, he would and he would not; and while he paltered, was visited by an oddly vivid memory of the clear and candid eyes of Cecelia Brooke, seemed veritably to see them searching his own with their look of grieving wonder ... the eyes of one woman who had reckoned him worthy of her trust ....
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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There are stories of mythical fish, giants, time-warped towns, war heroics and bank robberies.
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Human rights groups denounce supermaxes for dehumanizing inmates, leaving them warped and unable to return to normal society.
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He said: 'That skunk he smoked warped his mind.
The Sun
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By the 1940s, the mists of time had warped his vision to a few breast-plated harridans, some fire-breathing dragons and a liberal scattering of live animals.
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But some of the doors on the 14-year-old telescope could be warped; one was misaligned and difficult for an astronaut to close a full decade ago.
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We need to highlight that it is a very warped and perverse sense of honour.
The Sun
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This, in turn, had engendered a chronic distrustfulness, and his mind and character had become so warped that he was a very disagreeable man to deal with.
THE MAN WITH THE GASH
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The works look distant, remote, slightly warped.
Times, Sunday Times
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She used to play the piano but the instrument has been warped by the tropical heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The real intention behind this democracy/protest dyad is to tap the conviction of the protesters for some kind of warped endorsement of the very system they are protesting against.
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Stossel also warped reality to make concerns over the pesticide Alar, used by apple growers to protect the appearance of fruit, sound like a hoax.
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Their rambling villa once a model of gracious elegance was now a paradise of dry rot and borer, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
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His theories are often circumlocutory and warped.
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If this story is true the priest who offered up this warped advice should be defrocked.
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‘I told them to wait,’ he leant forward, his breath warm on her face, one corner of his mouth twisted upwards in a warped parody of a smile.
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To his warped mind it appeared that his natural father had robbed him of his rightful inheritance by having him born a bastard, and this whole affair was no more than the result of his terrible revenge!
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The utriculus is a warped, irregular bag, whose sections have become unrecognizable.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
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The country needs more able, less ideologically warped people in charge.
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This model is in pitiful shape; it's warped with water damaged, faded from the sun, and set beneath a perpetual drip of water-runoff from the cliff above.
April 28th, 2005
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Transfer energy bent and warped the outer hull of the ship and one section vented atmosphere as the outer hull buckled under strain.
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Their warped view of their religion was central to the offences and thus to the story.
Times, Sunday Times
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For one thing, after only a couple of uses, wood forms get warped, twisted, and crusted over with concrete, which means you have to replace them.
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The result leaves him with superpowers and a warped sense of humour.
The Sun
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I just sat and watched amorphous shapes going past through the warped glass.
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He tugged open the warped door and was immediately engulfed by the steam from the cauldron within.
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Their rambling villa, once a model of gracious elegance, was now a paradise of dry rot, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
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Bluntly, assertively refusing to comply with their demands withers them, because in their warped emotional environment, one person in each twosome must always dominate, the other be dominated.
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Fans of the Adam and Joe Show will recall a warped rewrite of The Royle Family using Star Wars figures.
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And in the warped world of religion the fact that a quadrant neither looks like nor is a circle has never stopped believers from going on believing that their quadrant is a circle nor trying to make us sceptics believe that their quadrant is a circle despite us seeing something else.
Evolution and Liberal Christianity
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They had a warped sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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And gabachos have warped our precious St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo holidays into bacchanals of booze and women--on second thought, that's a compliment.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN! Special Mexicans are Racist Edición
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Music, mime and choreography combine in this piece about five characters caught up in a warped reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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This box's contours are also unevenly matched and fit together like warped pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
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The warped handiwork of a taxidermist has given almost all of the stuffed animals odd expressions.
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My warped little mind says they are all actors in the adult film business following a script.
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We need to highlight that it is a very warped and perverse sense of honour.
The Sun
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Critics say the Wiesn has warped from a quaint Volksfest into a cultural wasteland: women in lederhosen, the occasional man in a dirndl, and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton flaunting designer renditions that cost thousands of dollars.
At Oktoberfest, a Controversy Brews Over Racy Designer Dirndls
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The 1980s series was never recommissioned but it forever warped Gerald's teenage years and shaped those of its other stars.
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If her slightly warped geometry and dissonant, high-keyed colors sometimes suggest the cartoon world of Elizabeth Murray, Cecily Kahn is more deeply rooted in the tradition of abstraction.
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It's a kind of warped trade protectionism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because the beds of these tables were made of wood, they warped within just a few years.
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The works look distant, remote, slightly warped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beyond the obviously warped people though are those who simply think they play much better than they do, and who don't appreciate how truly much they need to learn.
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That record is a perfect hole of peculation, insane risks, and the warped allocation of capital.
Matthew Yglesias » The Worst Option, Except for All the Others
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A combination of music, mime and choreography, in which five characters are caught up in a warped reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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But you are correct that the priorities are usually warped in ag policy.
Matthew Yglesias » Soda Lobbying
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It was an honour to be placed at the helm, but it was more of a challenge than he was prepared for because the Telegraph was an ailing business time-warped in the 1950s.
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This easy accessibility to remake movies by studious is really warped people's minds.
Howard Stern Reviving the Rock 'n' Roll High School « FirstShowing.net
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A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie.
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The worst aspect of our skewed perspective is our warped view of which judgments matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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OAKVILLE - Like some warped Canadian beach party, 500 people gather on the pebbled beach at Oakville's Coronation Park on New Year's Day, dressed in swimming trunks and toques, bikinis and fleece blankets, ready to jump in the lake.
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If a dweller was to get warped and decides to sue, all of her real estate assets are currently malignant; because they are in her autonym and piece does not own a will, confidence or power or attorney to protect them.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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Only blissful ignorance or a warped sense of humour could have seen the bloke returned three times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now she was trying to scare Liz away for whatever warped reason an anonymous caller might have.
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The result leaves him with superpowers and a warped sense of humour.
The Sun
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The window was warped by the dampness and it wouldn't shut.
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This influence, as well as a slightly warped sense of humor, manifest themselves in her strange cryptozoological creations and each peculiar artifact she creates.
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String theorists are cast in warped logic like that.
Anthropically Explaining Higgs
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Anna confronted the thin-lipped man on the other side of the warped wooden desk.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Displaying the common sense and warped desire for fame of a Big Brother evictee, Ruby creates a blog to publicise her serial shoplifting in the persona of Robyn Hood, who donates stolen goods to charity shops.
Summer reading for teenagers: darkness, danger and charity shops
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Plus due to them being warped/deformed from the journey through the Dark Portal, I wonder what they NORMALLY look like.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Computer Gaming Magazine Confirms Draenei as New Alliance Race?
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Might this have warped his journalistic judgment a wee bit?
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But the warped and peeling veneer suggested the heat and humidity might also have taken their toll.
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He was a very warped personality.
The Sun
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The windshield was, of course, new too and had not yet been warped up from the heat from the defroster.
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It's perfectly capable of remaining in its own time-warped bubble without help from its meddlesome friends.
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Bulk silicon is very brittle and has limited deformability, meaning that it cannot be stretched or warped very much without breaking." says Feng Xu, a Ph.D. student at NC state and co-author of the paper, "But the silicon nanowires are more resilient, and can sustain much larger deformation.
Cellular-news
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The door must be warped. It won't close properly.
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There were two doors at the back of the shed, one partially open, its frame warped from years of neglect.
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While he lives in his own little world, he knows what is going on out there - even if he twists the information in his own warped way.
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Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both out of curiosity and whatever warped sense of ‘duty’ she seemed to be deluding herself with.
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He might have a slightly warped view of cash at this point.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is difficult to imagine a more cunning, deceitful or warped course of conduct than yours in this case, or a more malicious one.
Times, Sunday Times
