How to Use time warp in a Sentence

time warp

noun
  • Walking into the castle was like entering a time warp.
  • 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
  • Maybe he, too, was trapped in a time warp of his own making.
    Alan Cowell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The news of Luke Perry's death feels to me like a cruel time warp.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2019
  • These last few years because of Covid have just been a time warp.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
  • The Federal Reserve just took the U.S. on a time warp back to 2000.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 4 May 2022
  • Who's ready to walk through a time warp and into a '90s warehouse dream?
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
  • But through this visual time warp, Leer kept it classy.
    Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
  • There, people were under siege and stuck in a time warp.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The Qatar World Cup time warp shows no signs of slowing down either.
    Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Just don’t confuse that with being stuck in a time warp.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The Masked Singer got in the Halloween spirit Wednesday by doing the time warp.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • All the coins showing heads somehow escaped the time warp.
    Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2016
  • No, you didn’t get sucked into a time warp back to 1990: Moon Boots are back, baby.
    Michele Corriston, PEOPLE.com, 25 July 2019
  • But debt collectors and consumers have been trapped in a time warp.
    Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
  • But Tekka, which turns 30 this month, is the antithesis of the trend, a tiny time warp in a city moving at warp speed.
    Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
  • The time warp also briefly puts her in the midst of a Bollywood musical.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 June 2022
  • Fans were taken on a bit of a time warp as the drama unfolded in reverse.
    Dana Feldman, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Aliens cause a mega time warp during first contact in this award-winning sci-fi film.
    Cecilia Nowell, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The moment felt like a time warp to a bygone era, especially for Plaza.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • 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
  • In the dragging time warp of quarantine, jet lag was difficult to shake.
    Washington Post, 22 May 2021
  • The 10-minute flight also didn’t include a kind of time warp where time stood still for such dramatic speeds and sitting for a few minutes on the edge of space.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 6 June 2022
  • Jennifer Peirson, a school counselor in New Jersey who now works from home, perceives she is caught in a time warp.
    Jackie Rocheleau, Scientific American, 27 May 2020
  • In many ways, Porto Heli feels like a time warp to western Mediterranean paradises in, say, the 1970s.
    Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 30 June 2017
  • The Joe Biden who showed up Monday at his first in-person fundraiser as president sounded like a man in a time warp.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But, even in the time warp of Hollywood, where a love story for the ages can happen in less than a year, the Lawrence-Jenner friendship is still going strong.
    Hilary Weaver, vanityfair.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Open on the same block since 1920, Nom Wah Tea Parlor is a time warp wrought from tile floors, lipstick-red booths, a pressed tin ceiling and slender mirrored columns.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But its propaganda is stuck in a time warp from back when few challenged its narrative.
    New York Times, 6 May 2021

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