PERVERT in a Sentence

Learn PERVERT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for PERVERT, such as:

1. You had begun to pervert my poor Felton.
2. Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
3. Some scientific discoveries have been perverted to create weapons of destruction.
4. Catherine had an awfully perverted taste to esteem him so dearly, knowing him so well.
5. Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERVERT
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pervert
 v.  cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; corrupt; bring to a bad or worse condition
Classic Sentence:
1  At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the recalcitrants who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterwards to pervert or to abandon it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2  You had begun to pervert my poor Felton.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
3  As touching reasons, it may be pleaded for the Roman method, that they are most fit to have charge of a thing, who least desire to pervert it to their own ends.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
4  Catherine had an awfully perverted taste to esteem him so dearly, knowing him so well.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  And his encounter with old Mistress Hibbins, if it were a real incident, did but show its sympathy and fellowship with wicked mortals, and the world of perverted spirits.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
6  This perverted child-man was now a real business-man; when it was a question of affairs, he was an absolute he-man, sharp as a needle, and impervious as a bit of steel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence:
1  As he was charged for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, detectives arrived at the house, taking him into custody at 5.45 p.m.
2  The first man is a holy fool who loves animals, the second a razor-thin opportunist, and the third an obese pervert.
3  Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
4  Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.
5  Some scientific discoveries have been perverted to create weapons of destruction.