distort

In a sentence

Six example sentences with distort, each labelled with its topic.

• Cropping the photo so tightly distorted what the evening was really like, since half the empty hall never appeared.

  Photography

• The documentary distorted the band's early years by cutting every mention of the drummer who wrote the first hits.

  Music

• Later chroniclers distorted the treaty by inserting a heroic speech that no witness at the ceremony ever recorded.

  History

• The attack ad distorted her record by cutting a sentence in half, so a promise to raise wages sounded like a threat.

  Politics

• Memory distorts events over time, adding details that never happened and dropping the ones that did.

  Psychology

• The summary distorted the survey by omitting the question on which two-thirds of customers said they would leave.

  Business

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More Academic words

• credibility
• conform
• specification
• induce
• equivalence
• assuring
• diverge
• propensity
• appreciated
• discriminating
• assigning
• neutralize