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kinked

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verb

past tense of kink

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of kinked
Adjective
Clean out any lint, hair, or residue and ensure and check to make sure the hose isn’t kinked or clogged. Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025 However, the cord can become tangled or kinked. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025 To preserve the svelte look, rather than appearing boxy, the floor-to-ceiling glass panels on the upper deck are subtly kinked to maintain the racing lines. Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kinked
Adjective
  • Though the 1948 British drama of the same name may be the most famous iteration, this twisted modern take is palpably tense and absolutely worth your time.
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The twist ending is the cherry on top of a twisted finale.
    Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The whole story starts to get really warped.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Adverts for incontinence pads or mothers passing on their experiences to daughters have warped society’s perception of what is normal.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Enormous ventilation pipes were coiled like snakes on the roof of the building.
    Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn’t coiled that weekend.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The unique curved heel, measuring around four inches, gives the classic silhouette an interesting edge.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The curved leg and tapered ankle create a subtle elongating effect, giving the illusion of longer legs while still feeling easy and comfortable to move in.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • No trail, just rock after rock, a phantom rattlesnake curled in every crevice.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • After a flurry of Mahtomedi early second-half chances, senior Oona Lienke used her defender as a shield and curled a shot towards the bottom corner.
    Andrew Cornelius, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Through the subject of his film, the director shows how an important part of Ghana’s modern history is entwined with a love of cinema.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, allowing men but not women to have multiple spouses is clearly unequal and entwined with patriarchal ideology that positions women as subordinate or inferior to men.
    David W. Lawson, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But the loose puck in the crease deflected off the knee pad of a Jets defender and in.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In his first comments since, Barmore, who declined to speak after the game, deflected Wednesday when asked what led to his apparent benching.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rumors have swirled for years that Lexus may choose to replace it with a high-end crossover model like the LF-1 Limitless concept of 2018.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But suspicions have swirled for years around Russia's Novaya Zemlya archipelago, a remote site off the coast of northern Russia, where more than 100 tests were carried out for decades during the Cold War.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Kinked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinked. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.

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