Example Sentences

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Like the woman’s increasingly upsetting visions, these time warps seem related to the eerie, vaguely human-shaped standing stone that looms over the island, a memorial to a past seafaring tragedy.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

If killer robots, wanton violence, time warps, and cyber-commerce’s commodification of rural America seem like familiar themes, it’s because they are.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

If you have ever been in a fight or a car accident, you know how time warps in a situation like that, where 2-3 seconds feel like 25 minutes.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2020

The half-dozen songs that unfold in its last half-hour are as moving an account of the way time warps youthful dreams as you’re ever likely to hear.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 10, 2012

Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut