How to Use pervert in a Sentence

pervert

1 of 2 verb

• They perverted the truth to help further their careers.
• My daughter was not no damn pervert, as Roy Moore called her.
  — Lindsey Ellefson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• But what is achieved by perverting the intention of such clips now?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
• He was also found guilty of perverting the court of justice.
  — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 27 Mar. 2026
• The ruling party used all manner of dirty tricks to pervert the vote, but still lost.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• And the celebrity perverts make lame art that’s honestly missable.
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
• But perverting the rules of the game, well, if such a rule change made its way to the major-league level… that’d rate as a big one.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Most presidents won't pervert the conduct of their office the way Trump did.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• Eni denies trying to silence anyone or pervert the course of justice.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Jihadists have perverted this belief to serve their own ends, analysts said.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 3 July 2016
• Anything bad that’s happening to you must be because the right order of the world has been perverted.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• But watching this man handle something that so resembled a child’s toy felt obscene, perverted.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2018
• The danger is not only that the new left might win in the marketplace of ideas, but that conservatives will pervert their own beliefs in response.
  — Bobby Jindal, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2019
• The brand, which was based on changing the status quo and perverting common ideas, was a success and Babenzien learned how to build a business.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
• That task is far from straightforward, because seemingly harmless actions can pervert whole models.
  — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
• Williams said he's heard outrage from across the city, including from people who supported the power plant, about efforts to pervert the public process.
  — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 10 May 2018
• And medicine, like any other profession, has its charlatans and jerks, and is certainly being perverted by the bean counters.
  — Judith Shulevitz, New York Times, 11 June 2018
• Queen & Slim perverts the road-movie genre that is usually about social exploration, not bias confirmation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2019
• But then Kaepernick’s message, as messages often do, became perverted into a debate that had nothing to do with his point.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
• The first protests soon erupted, with many people believing Babis was perverting the legal system to protect himself.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• Gesell worried that hoarding money in this way perverted the natural economic order.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• As both stance and style, decadence relies on relating to a norm, on having something to pervert or travesty, deconstruct or decay.
  — Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• The major social-media and tech companies have already done their share to pervert civil discourse and shatter consensus and squelch reason, all to make a buck.
  — Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• In Orlando, that concept was perverted and upended in the most brutal way imaginable.
  — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 13 June 2016
• What perverted the system was a rule that began to allow cash to flow from manufacturers to the GPOs.
  — Phillip L. Zweig and, WSJ, 7 May 2018
• Osama bin Laden and his ilk have perverted a peaceful religion, devoting it not to the salvation of souls but to the destruction of bodies.
  — John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
• As a result, some touchy old stereotypes, appropriated by whites and perverted as minstrelsy, are reclaimed and reframed.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Organized sports can easily be perverted.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
• Bones protrude monstrously from his emaciated body, and his soul-rattling laughter perverts a hallmark of happiness.
  — Brian Truitt, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019
• While interviewing, King heard the tale of another horrific story of justice perverted, and he was hooked.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018

pervert

2 of 2 noun

• You are being spied on by a pervert.
  — Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
• Brazil is the virgin that every foreign pervert wants to get their hands on.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2019
• So, rest assured, readers, writers and perverts of all stripes.
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
• Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
• Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
• The story of the shifting, creative ways that shame and denial pervert our social arrangements cannot be told too many times.
  — Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
• The chief barged into the police interrogation room where the man, handcuffed to the floor, called him a pervert.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
• Others were perverts and criminals, their sense of power engorged by their victims’ weakness.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
• Outside the courthouse on Friday, Toner’s lawyer made a brief statement about his pervert client.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
• And at the other end of the spectrum, some people utilized the photo to underscore how Smith was a schemer and a pervert.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022
• The interplay between pervert audience and chastising host is a delicate dance, as old as time.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
• There follows a leafletting campaign, accusing him of being a pervert and a danger to children.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 July 2026
• The bit continues poking fun at the production side of the show, with the pervert even getting make up and testing different lines.
  — Allison Crist, Billboard, 20 May 2018
• And more importantly, the only people who actually drink out of flasks are teens at high school football games and perverts.
  — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 31 May 2018
• By the end of August, detectives were pursuing their next pet theory — death by pervert.
  — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
• One feminist labeled him a pervert; another threatened to castrate him.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
• In 1989, when People magazine put you on the cover, you were treated like a pervert.
  — Andrew Goldman, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2022
• Brandon is spiraling down the pervert drain to be eventually flushed out into the ocean of depravity.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2022
• Also, what many now interpret as Kubrick’s exposé of elite perverts was, in fact, mostly Schnitzler’s doing.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
• Once shunned as a pervert, Muruganantham is now celebrated as a visionary.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 7 Feb. 2018
• Infectious Diseases was a liar and pervert, the newspaper reported.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Just when things are looking up — a haughty British couple leaves this daughter of Oxfordshire a handsome tip — the dinner pervert turns up for his morning coffee.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
• Both Albie and Dom view Bert as a senior pervert, with his unending attempts to flirt with any breathing woman within six inches of him.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2022
• Then, about refocusing our attention on the challenges ahead, like pervert incentives and algorithms that aren’t in line with human flourishing.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Jan. 2026
• Faxe the Foreteller centers an amazing scene, in a high hall, surrounded by eight other proleptic figures, two of them being quite insane and one a curious male pervert.
  — Harold Bloom, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
• Abbasi seems enamored by the contradictions of Hanaei, who was at once an upstanding Muslim, a family man, a pervert and a ruthless killer.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Obviously, this perverts language as a tool of communication and reshapes it into a vehicle for tribalism.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
• The possibilities are endless as the tapestry of the colonial mind can penetrate purity and pervert a movement’s ideology.
  — Philip Wolf, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Gooneral’s attendees didn’t care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.
  — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025