How to Use pervert in a Sentence

pervert

verb
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  • They perverted the truth to help further their careers.
  • The ruling party used all manner of dirty tricks to pervert the vote, but still lost.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • My daughter was not no damn pervert, as Roy Moore called her.
    — Lindsey Ellefson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But perverting the rules of the game, well, if such a rule change made its way to the major-league level… that’d rate as a big one.
    — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • But what is achieved by perverting the intention of such clips now?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • Most presidents won't pervert the conduct of their office the way Trump did.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
  • The jury found her guilty of slavery offences and perverting the course of justice.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • This is an episode when everything gets perverted in a way.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 19 July 2018
  • Anything bad that’s happening to you must be because the right order of the world has been perverted.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • And the celebrity perverts make lame art that’s honestly missable.
    — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Eni denies trying to silence anyone or pervert the course of justice.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • What perverted the system was a rule that began to allow cash to flow from manufacturers to the GPOs.
    — Phillip L. Zweig and, WSJ, 7 May 2018
  • The danger is not only that the new left might win in the marketplace of ideas, but that conservatives will pervert their own beliefs in response.
    — Bobby Jindal, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2019
  • Williams said he's heard outrage from across the city, including from people who supported the power plant, about efforts to pervert the public process.
    — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 10 May 2018
  • Hayden-Johnson pleaded guilty in 2009 to child cruelty and perverting the course of justice.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Bray, who pleaded guilty in August to three counts of computer misuse and perverting the course of justice, was sentenced to 14 months at Swindon Crown Court.
    — Reuters, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • No, but this doesn’t mean interpretations of the law cannot be perverted for the purpose of prosecuting Mr. Trump.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Osama bin Laden and his ilk have perverted a peaceful religion, devoting it not to the salvation of souls but to the destruction of bodies.
    — John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Jihadists have perverted this belief to serve their own ends, analysts said.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 3 July 2016
  • McNeil isn’t oblivious to the dark side of lurking, the way certain corners of the internet study discourses to mimic, troll, or pervert them.
    — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Or maybe the devil, perverting and distorting the work of God, had hidden himself away in the Americas to forge a deranged parody of the Christian faith.
    — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The first protests soon erupted, with many people believing Babis was perverting the legal system to protect himself.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • The first protests soon erupted, with many people believing Mr. Babis was perverting the legal system to protect himself.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2019
  • And medicine, like any other profession, has its charlatans and jerks, and is certainly being perverted by the bean counters.
    — Judith Shulevitz, New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • But then Kaepernick’s message, as messages often do, became perverted into a debate that had nothing to do with his point.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
  • But watching this man handle something that so resembled a child’s toy felt obscene, perverted.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Gray, of Sheffield, South Yorks., was charged with driving while disqualified, dangerous driving and committing an act with intent to pervert the course of justice.
    — Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The major social-media and tech companies have already done their share to pervert civil discourse and shatter consensus and squelch reason, all to make a buck.
    — Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • With Following Piece, Acconci perverted the notion of public art.
    — Kriston Capps, The Atlantic, 3 May 2017
  • Queen & Slim perverts the road-movie genre that is usually about social exploration, not bias confirmation.
    — Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2019

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