Example Sentences

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"It was never going to end well, and his downfall was inevitable. Eventually his lies caught up with him and he is now facing the consequences of his deceit, and his perversions."

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

The family itself becomes the unit that keeps old prejudices and perversions alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Series co-creator Craig Mazin writes David as a metaphor for the twin perversions of absolute power and male supremacy.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2023

Unlike “Go, Went, Gone,” which critiqued the power structures that enable perversions and prejudices to flower, “The Laughter” seems to argue that the worst consequences of these structures are immutable and inevitable.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

He had never posed before her and—what a tribute to her character!—in her rather austere presence he avoided those whimsical perversions of the truth which so exasperated his wife.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley