Wondering how to use Skew in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as skewed or inclined.
Skew in a sentence
Related words
Skew meaning
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
Using Skew
- The main meaning on this page is: To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- Useful related words include: skewed, inclined, reorient, align.
- In the example corpus, skew often appears in combinations such as: to skew, skew the, the skew.
Context around Skew
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skew
- In this selection, "skew" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, surprisingly, left, negative, fields, towards and slightly stand out and add context to how "skew" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to skew variance and added would skew the figures. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skew" sits close to words such as adoration, alfredo and arbitrage, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skew
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Skew quadrilaterals A non-planar quadrilateral is called a skew quadrilateral. (11 words)
It did skew a lot towards emerging markets, which we've noted. (12 words)
Just be aware that most dating subreddits tend to skew slightly on the pessimistic side. (15 words)
I found in my long-term testing that occasionally the bidet seat starts to skew slightly out of alignment with the toilet bowl, a problem that is easily fixed by removing the seat from the catchment plate and snapping it back into its correct position. (45 words)
Relationship of mean and median The skewness is not strictly connected with the relationship between the mean and median: a distribution with negative skew can have the mean greater than or less than the median, and likewise for positive skew. (40 words)
Paul T. von Hippel points out: "Many textbooks, teach a rule of thumb stating that the mean is right of the median under right skew, and left of the median under left skew. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Studies aren’t conclusive, but on average, Uber and Lyft riders, not surprisingly, skew rich and skew young.
Paul T. von Hippel points out: "Many textbooks, teach a rule of thumb stating that the mean is right of the median under right skew, and left of the median under left skew.
Relationship of mean and median The skewness is not strictly connected with the relationship between the mean and median: a distribution with negative skew can have the mean greater than or less than the median, and likewise for positive skew.
Skew fields have an interesting semantic feature: a modifier (here "skew") widens the scope of the base term (here "field").
Skew quadrilaterals A non-planar quadrilateral is called a skew quadrilateral.
Stephenson's skew arch bridge Stephenson's bridge A close-up of the technique 1830 also saw the grand opening of the skew bridge in Rainhill over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Thus a field is a particular type of skew field, and not all skew fields are fields.
For instance, certain studies in women’s health could be prone to socioeconomic bias by virtue of the datasets that skew towards higher-income women more likely to receive routine gynecology care.
It did skew a lot towards emerging markets, which we've noted.
I timed up until the 45 minute mark (not additional time because I felt time wasting in time added would skew the figures) and up until we scored after 79 minutes 56 seconds.
Just be aware that most dating subreddits tend to skew slightly on the pessimistic side.
The substantial skew is evident, with the top two holdings dominating more than 30% of the allocations.
To be sure, there are many other gleeful opinions that have been shared online about and its Canadian royals storyline, and certainly some that skew harsh and overtly negative.
As noted previously, based on these inputs, the ranking tends to skew heavily towards public schools, but private schools made a major value comeback this year.
As usual, restaurants are going all out to prepare Thanksgiving feasts worthy of a Manhattan palate, whether you skew more traditional or want a nouveau international twist on your turkey with cranberry sauce.
Clemson games are high-variance, but I feel good about the Tigers’ ability to skew variance.
I found in my long-term testing that occasionally the bidet seat starts to skew slightly out of alignment with the toilet bowl, a problem that is easily fixed by removing the seat from the catchment plate and snapping it back into its correct position.
In China, Morgan Stanley still prefers onshore stocks to their offshore peers given the skew to manufacturing, industrial and clean energy sectors.
Many renters “skew towards younger and lower income consumers,” per the Bank of America report.
The movement to replace IQ as a measure of intelligence when such cultural biases skew its findings began as early as the 1960s.
Common combinations with skew
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to skew 23×
- skew the 14×
- the skew 5×
- that skew 5×
- could skew 5×
- skew to 5×
- can skew 5×
- may skew 4×
- and skew 3×
- of skew 3×