time warp

Example Sentences

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For Sir Phil, who made a cameo appearance, it felt like "going through a time warp".

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

Stupefied, I stood in the aisle, convinced I’d slipped through a time warp.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2025

Hollywood may be frantically mining race for stories, but in the real world, the issue of racial ambiguity, of being neither Black nor white, seems caught in some retrograde time warp.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024

“There’s a bit of a sense of a time warp in Northern Ireland,” Professor Ferriter said.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

It feels like we’ve stepped into a time warp.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman