Example Sentences

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"It was never going to end well, and his downfall was inevitable. Eventually his lies caught up with him and he is now facing the consequences of his deceit, and his perversions."

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

This also speaks to the hollowness that all ideological language contains, to paraphrase Orwell, in its swindles and perversions, its slovenliness and vagueness.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

Unlike “Go, Went, Gone,” which critiqued the power structures that enable perversions and prejudices to flower, “The Laughter” seems to argue that the worst consequences of these structures are immutable and inevitable.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

They’re full of characters trapped by quirks and perversions, then also buffeted by forces beyond their control.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2021

From it have grown perversions varying in their proportion of truth and error.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill