misshape
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Sure, I am OK to sweat under bright lights and have a heavy-mic pack permanently misshape the waistband of a skirt, but, reader, only if it’s worth it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2019
A dream sequence late in the script is almost certainly a structural bungle, and passages in which characters state their claims too blatantly misshape individual scenes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2014
“No no no!” she teased her son, watching him misshape a dumpling.
From Washington Post
He pays particular attention to the intricacies of political institutions and how they shape and misshape policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moccasins just broadened her feet healthily, while she did not misshape them by running with the dogs in her childhood.'
From The Son of the Wolf by London, Jack
The Hulu series comes before us as history is actively misshaped by men like Alex Murdaugh, which makes it a distinctly masochistic viewing experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2025
But if you’re game for an emerging filmmaking talent’s stingingly uncanny foretelling, “The Pink Cloud” is an arresting examination of what it can look like when existence is misshaped into a compromised destiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
Verdon, like Fosse, grew up dancing: As a child she had rickets, which misshaped her legs.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2019
Ms. Upson also made one of the strongest contributions to this year’s Whitney Biennial: urethane casts of sectional sofas from Las Vegas tract houses, which appeared less like furniture than like misshaped human bodies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
It was not that he was positively deformed, or misshaped, for, taken in detail, the figure was well enough.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir
The balls of both feet and the ends of both pointer toes had been mashed into misshapen blisters.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
From the ashes she pulled a strange assortment of survivors: fragments of ceramic plates, misshapen metal and coffee mugs that no public health authority would recommend using.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
These misshapen proteins can disrupt mitochondria’s ability to produce the energy cells need.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
By buying misshapen and ugly produce and reselling it at discount prices in subscription boxes, Misfits Market has grown into a billion-dollar business.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2024
He stared at the misshapen pieces of metal and was thankful that his uncle still hadn’t returned.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.
From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.
But while he was living thus quietly in Dapitan, events that were to determine his fate were misshaping themselves in Manila.
From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.
Her Hand was to her bosom; she breathed hard, and presently, while he stared, words misshaping themselves upon his abashed lips she smiled!
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
