Example Sentences

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Amid a looping vocal recording, Blake declares distortedly, “I’d rather you choose me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Does that create, maybe, a distortedly reasonable case for Tesla’s board of directors to let Musk have a deal he wanted?

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2023

The way the young Esther distortedly reflects her mother’s fluctuating fears and inner conflicts is one of the novel’s strengths.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2021

Forced into action by the tortured mind, the muscles of the lower face, which had never moved yet, were moving distortedly now.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie

There is much of the paradoxical in journalism—as, indeed, in the life which it distortedly mirrors.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins