Example Sentences

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Over a microphone, designer Callie Kinnan describes her decision to resew the entire garment in a new material: “The stretch mesh didn’t work. It kept warping when I sewed.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

It took Jadoon and his team months of welding and warping to fashion his Optimus Prime, with over 90 percent of its parts sourced from discarded vehicle pieces.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

T-glass is used in reinforcement layers under or around chips, and those layers help prevent the package from warping when processors heat up to around the boiling point of water.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

"These materials tend to be porous, which significantly reduces their strength, and the parts suffer from excessive shrinkage, which causes warping," he says.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025

“Well, I just want to be sure. Maybe Charles Fort’s warping my brain, but stories about teleportation and people vanishing into thin air...we should check.”

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett