How to Use skew in a Sentence

skew

1 of 3 verb

• He accused them of skewing the rules in their favor.
• They were accused of skewing the facts to fit their theory.
• Most of my customers, their age tends to skew towards the young 30s.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• In a town known for rules skewed in favor of the house, my father refused the dice as the stickman set them.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 July 2023
• Add a white heeled sandal and a structured bag for a look that might even skew a bit prep-school chic.
  — Vogue, 30 Mar. 2022
• But over the last few decades, movies in general have been skewing longer.
  — Sam Sanders, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
• If this didn't happen, the extra hours would add up over time and seasons would start to skew.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Both young voters and mail-in votes tend to skew Democratic.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• It’s tucked away in Jourdain, a part of the 19th arrondissement that few tourists will make the trek for, so the crowd skews local and gourmand.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
• The median age in Ohio is 39.5, meaning some cities also have to skew younger.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
• Those could skew month-over-month comparisons for some of the labor force data.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• The epilepsy patients skewed older, and most already enjoyed the song.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
• It’s this fraternization with the unknown that could skew the W’s mass.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• One of the limitations to the study was its small sample size, which can skew the results of any trial.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
• Skin pigment isn’t the only variable that can skew those results.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• This is a tactile book, but its sensations skew smooth and gentle.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• As for paint colors that skew more subtle than siren, Wadden says there’s plenty to play with.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Other studies show the presence of a weapon can skew a victim’s memory of a crime.
  — cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
• Scooter supporters complain that the way the vote has been organized is skewed against them.
  — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• The results could be skewed if health care providers were on the lookout for ingestions, Dodington added.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
• Similar to the Hunger Games prequel, the film is skewing female (69 percent).
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
• That said, most underwear for working out tends to skew toward the compression side of things.
  — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
• This is partly what accounts for the rise of far-right and far-left parties in Europe in recent years, whose leaders skew younger.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• The movie skewed notably male on Friday (61 percent), but the gender breakdown could even out as the weekend unfolds.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
• The attendees skewed younger and more diverse than Trump's usual rally crowds.
  — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2024
• And to be honest, the idea for the City Connect is to reach a younger demographic than baseball has skewed towards in recent years.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• The show’s style has evolved along with its tone, skewing toward the surreal as events spiraled further out of control.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• For body fat percentage, the Scale X skewed a little higher, but was still within one percent of the Omiron.
  — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Leos on our team, for example, are all about statement looks, while Cancer’s moon children skew more toward the classics.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2023
• Surprisingly, the Highsmith/Butler/Adebayo group, though that’s skewed by strong offensive games from Heat guards on some of those nights.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024

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skew

2 of 3 adjective

• And just because the brands on offer skew higher-end doesn’t mean there aren’t deals to be had.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2022
• The run-up for stocks through last year tended to skew portfolios away from the 60-40 paradigm.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 11 May 2022
• The same skew echoes through the industry: from the podium, in the back offices, on the programs, in the conservatories.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• Most of the 182 rooms skew small, albeit with big, factory-style windows.
  — Susan Hack, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
• As the league continues to skew younger, Toppin will be something of an anomaly in this year's draft.
  — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
• On the other hand, countries that have minimal risk are from a wide range of latitudes, but skew more to the poles.
  — Emily Barone, Time, 4 May 2022
• But remember that the first quarter can be quiet, and that megadeals can skew numbers from one quarter to the next.
  — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 19 Apr. 2022
• The fits are looser, the fabrics skew toward linen and Tencel, and there are hardly any shoulder pads in sight.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2022
• As for paint colors that skew more subtle than siren, Wadden says there’s plenty to play with.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
• So far, there’s been an imbalance in smart home gadgets – many more skew on the side of a gimmick than gotta-have-it.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2023
• In the cats-versus-dogs debate, pop culture tends to skew in one direction.
  — Sarah Archer, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
• In some states, mail-in ballots and early votes get released first — which tend to skew Democratic.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• Conservative Jews skew oldest out of any of the groups, with an average age of 62.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 11 May 2021
• Cities that skew younger tend to have higher birth rates and a growing population.
  — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
• Don't let your worries skew what should be fun memories!
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2022
• This could be a moment for feminists, who skew to the political left, to learn from the powerful rhetoric of the right.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2021
• And how much will one sports writer’s love of a Washington winery skew our rankings?
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• The denizens of r/RawMeat seem to skew young and male, and their forum unfurls like a pamphlet for a profound new epicurean crusade.
  — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
• Considering the AirPods themselves aren't the fullest-sounding pair out there and skew toward a brighter sound, that's not great.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2022
• There are toxic corners of any fandom, but Dragon Age players skew toward the Nice end of the spectrum.
  — Swapna Krishna, Wired, 6 Oct. 2021
• The records show that two-thirds of this group are men, most of the people are white, about 20 are Black or other people of color and they by far skew young, with two-thirds in their late teens to 20s.
  — oregonlive, 30 May 2021
• The rides on dry land, however, definitely skew toward the under-8 set.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• Right now the service's films and TV shows skew toward family-friendly fare more than its rivals.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
• Hancock reports that the ages of people who died skew toward older Ohioans, but 85 Ohioans under age 30 have lost their lives to the coronavirus.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
• The trend bodes well for diversifying juries, which tend to skew white and affluent.
  — Eric Scigliano, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
• Second, the first people infected may skew young and are thus more likely to have mild cases regardless of the variant.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2021
• So far, antitrust law has struggled to address all the ways that dominant platforms skew markets.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2022
• Thinking outside of the box can go a long way and ensure your group photos skew more along the lines of timeless chic memories rather than cheesy mementos.
  — Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021
• The new sensors should lead to faster polling (more frequent checks for AF and exposure), and reduce rolling shutter distortion/skew for motion.
  — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
• While many funds are a combination of value and growth stocks, investors can use tools such as Morningstar Research’s list of value funds to see what funds skew toward value.
  — Bylucy Brewster, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023

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skew

3 of 3 noun

• As Cohn wrote, a 70-30 skew is still a big loss for Democrats.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• Smith, who at 39 skews young for a Crusher fan, doesn't want the icon to be forgotten.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
• That's why the MarieClaire.com team volunteered as tribute and gave a few skews a test run.
  — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 10 Sep. 2019
• In the absence of a partisan skew, this might not matter.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• But Chase leads the group still, with six, and Mixon’s five total touchdowns last week skew the numbers a bit here.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2022
• But Trump’s core of support held firm and so did the Republican skew of the Senate map.
  — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• In a place where the roads are otherwise perfectly straight, why are there random skews in the roads?
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2018
• If your home decor and large fir skew toward the charmingly rustic, why not make the gifts under the tree part of the design?
  — Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2021
• Not all of the topics Dua explores through Service95 skew serious.
  — Jen Wang, Vogue, 10 May 2022
• For Merrell, the decision to skew to a wider audience was an easy one.
  — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2019
• Passengers on cruise ships tend to skew older, Dr. Cetron said.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• In the options market, a measure known as skew tracks the cost of bearish options versus bullish ones.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• Of course, in the US, Motorola's sales skew toward very low-cost phones, which is likely to impact scores.
  — PCMAG, 30 Mar. 2022
• The resulting skew of candidates to the right is, in part, because Utah is deeply red overall.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
• With its skew to out-of-home drinking, Pernod may be a surer bet than its peers as barflies return.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021
• Many Asian Americans skew left on issues at the core of this election cycle.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2020
• And should your standard makeup skew more minimalist, take the 3D trend out on your nails.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
• Even accounting for Kinect owners who never even tried the freebie disc, that’s a big skew.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 6 June 2017
• In November, the Athena Club brand is expanding to include more skews.
  — Ashley Edwards Walker, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2019
• The male-centric skew isn’t simply a product of history.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
• If your aesthetic skews more clean and modern, than this all-white tree pre-lit with clear lights is going to be your dream come true.
  — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 3 Dec. 2019
• For another, Norwegian’s brands skew more high end than those of its peers.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2021
• The partisan skew appeared in their experiment, the authors stress, even though all ads were run from the same account and at the same time.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• Some men tend to skew larger and some women smaller or narrower, but this isn’t always the case.
  — Popular Science, 23 Feb. 2021
• The jokes may skew juvenile at times, but mostly in a Shrek way more than the worst of Saturday-morning cartoons.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 13 June 2022
• Out of a dozen songs, or 14 songs on the deluxe edition, just a few skew more toward reflective rue than breezy optimism.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
• Our research does not indicate a gender skew to any of these attributes.
  — Cynthia Soledad, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2017
• This could be a reflection of the partisan skew in the nation’s distribution of small arms.
  — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The skew toward bats reflected how the Giants viewed the strength of this draft class and organizational need.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
• Euphoria’s streaming skew explains why the overall audience for the show is much bigger than even the numbers HBO reports after episodes premiere each week.
  — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024