Sentence examples for become distorted by from inspiring English sources

Surely, this was just a story which had become distorted by time?

The controversy over school integration has become distorted by a disproportionate stress on the related issues of busing and the neighborhood school.

In the pressured atmosphere of America itself, however, this ideal was to become distorted by a radical form of individualism, which is now undermining social cohesion.

Bardet said one of the first signs of foundation damage is that doors and windows won't open or close because their frames have become distorted by the shifting house, sometimes so much so that the glass twists and breaks.

Lawmakers have tried to revive the region by pouring cash into projects in so-called Empire Zones an approach Mr Spitzer says has become "distorted by the political process".

Even so, the statistics of pulsars are likely to be observationally biased, since signals from pulsars at great distances in the Galaxy become distorted by ionized regions of interstellar space.

As these plasmons move across the surface of the nanostructure, their resonance frequency shifts as the nanostructure geometry becomes distorted by the phonons.

In Cassidy's portrait, Meeker was a discerning analyst whose judgment, over the course of the boom, became distorted by the madness around her.

When a user craves a fix and their addled mind becomes distorted by the very drug they seek, the reasoning that would usually make a severe sanction effective as a deterrent becomes distorted.

[ image: /photos/590953c5019dfc3494e9e50c] "The Idea of America," by Gordon S. Wood (Penguin Press; $29.95) A set of probing essays... [explores] how the principles of these revolutionaries became distorted by events outside their control.

"The Americans revolted not out of actual suffering but out of reasoned principle," Wood argues in a set of probing essays, which explore how the principles of these revolutionaries became distorted by events outside their control.