How to Use time warp in a Sentence

time warp

noun
  • Walking into the castle was like entering a time warp.
  • Ready to do the time warp again?
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
  • These last few years because of Covid have just been a time warp.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
  • The pandemic shot both trends through a time warp in the span of a few months.
    — Zach Wener-Fligner, Quartz at Work, 11 Aug. 2020
  • But debt collectors and consumers have been trapped in a time warp.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Aliens cause a mega time warp during first contact in this award-winning sci-fi film.
    — Cecilia Nowell, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Who's ready to walk through a time warp and into a '90s warehouse dream?
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
  • Chinese food in Taiwan hasn’t evolved with the decades, as if stuck in a time warp.
    — Eddie Lin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Zhang is well into her 50s but one of the younger locals in this time warp of a town.
    — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The news of Luke Perry's death feels to me like a cruel time warp.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2019
  • Let’s do the time warp again, only this time at Studio 54.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Others, however, will just find themselves in a tired time warp.
    — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Fans were taken on a bit of a time warp as the drama unfolded in reverse.
    — Dana Feldman, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The Qatar World Cup time warp shows no signs of slowing down either.
    — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • In the dragging time warp of quarantine, jet lag was difficult to shake.
    — Washington Post, 22 May 2021
  • Finding them last fall in a ghost town in the Midwest felt like stepping into a time warp.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The build-your-own-salad at your table is a nice change of pace in this incredible time warp.
    — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The build-your-own-salad at your table is a nice change of pace in this incredible time warp.
    — Phillip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026
  • Many of the hotels on the Kenyan coast remain trapped in a 1980s time warp.
    — Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
  • But its propaganda is stuck in a time warp from back when few challenged its narrative.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • Stepping through the front door of a 1970s rancher can often feel like a time warp.
    — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The time warp also briefly puts her in the midst of a Bollywood musical.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 June 2022
  • The moment felt like a time warp to a bygone era, especially for Plaza.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • But ah, Steve, bless his heart, seems to be living in a time warp, still clinging to those late ’90s vibes.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Indeed, Americans have been tussling over the time warp for well over a century now.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • To toast a half-century of Horror, Billboard is doing the time warp, again.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The first visit to the restaurant now known as Blue Habanero is an inevitable time warp for those who’ve been there before.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The Masked Singer got in the Halloween spirit Wednesday by doing the time warp.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The documentary arrives at a moment when pop culture is caught in a Y2K time warp.
    — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Which song was the quintessential time warp in regards to Stewart’s sound Wednesday?
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 11 June 2026

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