How to Use distorted in a Sentence
distorted
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At the end, the song flips out into bursts of distorted glitch-core noise.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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Stunting or slow growth with distorted leaves or stems.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
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The self-serving bias is a distorted view that protects your ego.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 14 Sep. 2024
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Pageant moms believe the media look through a distorted lens.
—Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2022
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Enter nyxy nyx and their distorted psych goth, informed by a beloved local band but made all their own.
—Maria Sherman, SPIN, 26 June 2023
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Still, many marketers have a distorted picture of spending by age group.
—Mauro F. Guillén, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
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Fixing the state’s distorted water system for an era of climate change will be the work of many decades.
—Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
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Ten years is a long time, even longer through the distorted lens of music consumption in the streaming age.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2026
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The distorted cells lodge in blood vessels instead of slipping smoothly through them as round red blood cells do.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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Because it was done so quickly, everything sounds a bit distorted and live.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
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All the while, Combs spits a few bars in a distorted baritone about his late mother’s passing.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
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Chunky black and deep red sneakers with a distorted Dior motif on the tongue were posted in an eight-slide carousel.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 July 2024
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As a result this can cause the rearview camera image to flicker or become distorted.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
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This can create a distorted picture.
—Mykola Lukashuk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
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In the center of the picture, under one of the watches, is a distorted human face in profile.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
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This must have been the idea of the same person who thought up the little distorted puzzles on the back page of the Sunday comics.
—Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025
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As a result, this can cause the rearview camera image to flicker or become distorted, the report said.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
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Aphids are sucking insects that draw large quantities of plant sap, causing leaves and stems to become distorted.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
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The album kicks off with distorted yet beautiful, spellbinding singing, setting the stage for what is to come.
—Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The mirror is made of high-quality float glass, which means there’s never a distorted reflection.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
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But there are growing signs of creeping financial pain, linked to a distorted war economy.
—Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026
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The idea was to put more of a modern twist on this older sound, with the hazy, fuzzy synths, the drone-y guitar and the real distorted drum machine.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 24 June 2024
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If left untreated, small tears in the retina can progress from blurred or distorted vision to full blindness—a curtain drawn across the world.
—Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
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The instrumentation stayed true to the alt-rock sound, with distorted guitars and driving drums keeping up the pace.
—Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025
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It might be made of the same substance, evolving into a fleshy body but retaining the same lanky, distorted proportions.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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Letting go of these items leads to regret for the loss of nostalgia and passing on true history for a distorted version.
—Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
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Bove has denied the allegation, calling it false and distorted.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 12 Dec. 2025
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By all accounts, Dylan and his band did not play well, their fumbling of the songs overshadowed by the sheer distorted volume.
—Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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Everything is designed to look like the early ’60s, only through a distorted lens.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024
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