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20 example sentences for WARPED, such as:

1. There is a warp in this record.
2. The bamboo stick warped in water.
3. No line like that warped his red lips.
4. Left in the garage where it was damp, the wooden frame had warped.
5. The lady's charming personality must not be permitted to warp our judgment.

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 Meanings and Examples of WARPED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
warp
 n.  rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; towing line; state of being twisted or bent out of shape
Classic Sentence:
1  Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
2  In the middle of the orchard we came upon a grape arbour, with seats built along the sides and a warped plank table.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
3  But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  No line like that warped his red lips.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
6  There lay the fixed threads of the warp subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise interblending of other threads with its own.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
7  This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
8  It is furnished with a small rope called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be hauled back to the hand after darting.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
9  But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 114. The Gilder.
10  As for herself, she was busy at her loom, shooting her golden shuttle through the warp and singing beautifully.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
11  The lady's charming personality must not be permitted to warp our judgment.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
12  Then Aeneas bore forth two purple garments stiff with gold, that Sidonian Dido's own hands, happy over their work, had once wrought for him, and shot the warp with delicate gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  The estate had only recently been put on to the new reformed system, and the new mechanism worked, creaking like an ungreased wheel, warping and cracking like homemade furniture of unseasoned wood.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  It is so warped by regulation that it is hard to envisage what a totally free-market system would be like, or whether it would be better.
2  Rochester shudder: a singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion.
3  Left in the garage where it was damp, the wooden frame had warped.
4  The bamboo stick warped in water.
5  Left out in the heat of the sun, tapes easily warp or get stuck in their cases.
6  There is a warp in this record.
7  This collection of stereotypes reads like it fell through a time warp from a couple of decades ago.