How to Use twisted in a Sentence

twisted

adjective
  • The game is so twisted right now.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The guys who wrote this are twisted.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • That’s where that twisted fetish came from.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The trees are all gnarled and turned and twisted and just weird.
    — National Geographic, 7 July 2020
  • Sabonis snared the pass, twisted and heaved a shot to tie the game.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Over time, the nail forms an oyster-like or twisted horn shape.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 19 July 2024
  • There’s a [twisted] pleasure in this kind of word.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Cranes were brought in to peel away layers of twisted, burned steel.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Straight uphill, twisted chest-high grass mixed with briers and field burrs.
    — Eric Church, Field & Stream, 5 June 2024
  • The story is so compelling and so fun and so dark and twisted.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • On the first day, his students make a curved and twisted hook, then a leafy key ring fob.
    — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • But to look at the darkest, most twisted version of that good.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The inside is dark and twisted, much like her own insides.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And my co-writer is a twisted little man.
    — Brie Stimson , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a twisted sense of humor to the music, too.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Her body lay twisted, half inside the door, more than a month later.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • But each episode follows its own twisted logic to places far, far afield.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Tree trunks and large twisted roots jut out the skeletal school structure.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • West's curls were slicked into a low bun with a twisted strand framing her face.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In a twisted, inverse way, sitting in the dark last month drove that point home.
    — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Many of the trees that survived were left with bent and twisted trunks, and scars where bark was torn off.
    — Liz Teitz, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Once the snake falls to the bottom, twirl the bag and tie a knot well up on the twisted section.
    — Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The twist ending is the cherry on top of a twisted finale.
    — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The firehouse was left as a pile of debris and twisted metal.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Take your final twisted straw over the heat gun and create a gentle arch.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • These cause broken wrists and twisted ankles.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But for now the focus is on wrapping up the twisted journey that was high school.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2018
  • Freddie Otash has been something of a twisted muse for you.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • The story comes to us in two twisted strands, a double helix of past and present.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • But in the often-twisted logic of the stock markets, good news can be bad news.
    — Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'twisted.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: