He held the muzzle of his rifle pointed at the sky, and the heated metal distorted the air around it in a watery mirage.

Within five heartbeats Kevla could see the waves of heat distorting the air around it.

The heat rises from the engine as if it were on fire, throwing off waves that distort everything around it.

The stealth mechanism on the Silhouette is said to work by distorting the air around the aircraft.

Small fires burned in several nooks; waves of rising heat distorted the air above and around the tree.

He blinked several times in an effort to clear away the blurriness that was distorting the room around him.

The truth was that the presence of so much magic distorted the space around it.

He just seemed, without trying, to distort things around him.

And then he became aware of space starting to distort around him.

Many of his sculptures seem to recede into the distance, disappear into the ground or distort the space around them.