How to Use skewed in a Sentence

skewed

adjective
  • For me, my connection to it is sort of skewed.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • None of the scans was visibly skewed.
    — David English, PC Magazine, 20 June 2026
  • Our perception may start out skewed, but we’ll be brought back down to earth.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2024
  • Many brands only make dog sweaters for small dogs, which means sizing can get a bit skewed.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the last ten years, 3 ranked among the ten hottest and 7 skewed hotter than normal.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The film opens with promising, skewed angles on the city, and there are a few outdoor scenes at the end.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Last year’s draft had a lot of late-birth first-rounders, and this age group looks similarly skewed.
    — The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Admittedly, my feelings on all of this are a bit skewed.
    — Justin Williams, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • Swafford agreed, saying the data the state is asking for is skewed.
    — Michael Wetzel The Decatur Daily, al, 5 Feb. 2023
  • But the homages are never rote—every choice is skewed and supercharged.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Crooked floorboards and skewed beams were used for reasons of construction cost.
    — Fiona Bornhöft, Architectural Digest, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The country still holds elections, but the system is highly skewed.
    — Gonul Tol, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The pic skewed male, or 63 percent, as most superhero films do.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2024
  • Their time is very skewed toward my daughter-in-law’s family.
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The rules that will govern that race are important; if the field is skewed, the results will be, too.
    — Fred P. Hochberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
  • But in the long run the skewed ratio of females could be detrimental, Lasala added.
    — Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In addition, the selection of words was skewed.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The thrill of witnessing great drag has been overshadowed by skewed judging.
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • And Neeson’s lethal glare proves the jumping-off point for much skewed buffoonery.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 July 2025
  • If left unchecked, that could lead to skewed outcomes, favoring certain stores or customers.
    — Gurhan Kok, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no plot to lock out Blacks and Latinos, just a system that’s skewed over time and can be fixed.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
  • Tibi applied double zippers to wide-leg jeans and showed relaxed styles with slouchy, slightly skewed fits.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Even though the family is no longer on YouTube, the kids’ worldview still seems skewed.
    — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026
  • Judges are the best and final defense of a system that is inherently skewed.
    — Ann Ravel, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
  • If the data is biased or skewed, then the AI model will reflect that bias.
    — Deepak Gupta, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • As the stock trends higher and builds a base, the risk/reward is increasingly skewed to the upside.
    — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In the eastern half of the country, fundamentals such as house price-to-rent ratios were less skewed.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Auburn had more than five yards per carry as a team purely from skewed Payton Thorne data.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • There was no pork in the kitchen—Pimentel doesn’t eat it—and a portion of the menu skewed plant-based and vegan.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Thus, their numbers are somewhat skewed despite topping 120 points in their past two games.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022

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