Sample Sentences for
distort
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    The funhouse mirror distorted her reflection, making her head look huge.
    distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
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    I looked out of the window, saw Askew far out there, heading away, distorted by the water on the pane.  (source)
    distorted = altered in an unnatural way
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    The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.  (source)
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    We recognise the smooth distorted faces, the helmets: they are French.  (source)
    distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
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    Wonderful perfect quadraphonic sound with distortion levels so low as to make a brave man weep.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    8TH JUROR: He said fifteen. 3RD JUROR: Now I'm telling you he said twenty. What're you trying to distort . . .  (source)
    distort = to alter something in an untrue way
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    The fire was the only light, and it threw distorting shadows on the still faces as they watched us.†  (source)
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    But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias.†  (source)
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    Also, you'll find out soon enough that John distorts--when he isn't out-and-out lying.  (source)
    distorts = alters the truth
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    But in the shopwindow, she has caught herself off guard, vulnerable to reality undistorted by self-delusion.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undistorted means not and reverses the meaning of distorted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    CONE OF SILENCE: the field of a distorter that limits the carrying power of the voice or any other vibrator by damping the vibrations with an image-vibration 180 degrees out of phase.†  (source)
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    He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his honest and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the pendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room distortedly reflect—a shade of horror.†  (source)
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    Rumors of a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals managed their own affairs, continued to circulate in vague and distorted forms, and throughout that year a wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside.  (source)
    distorted = altered in an untrue way
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