How to Use defective in a Sentence

defective

adjective

• The disease is caused by a defective gene.
• This computer is defective. I want my money back.
• In two of the three, both copies of the CEP290 gene targeted were defective.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 22 Nov. 2022
• During that time, one of the defective heaters caught fire, resulting in the death of a 90-year-old man.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 July 2022
• As far as Glassman is concerned, the lights are defective and as such will have to come down.
  — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• In the case of the women in Chile - the pills that they were provided were defective according to the ISP.
  — Gabrielle Smith, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
• The company says the impeller, which is the rotating part of the pump, could be defective.
  — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Margaret and Todd work to help an athlete who lost his leg because of a defective aircraft.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• The award was the largest in a series of cases that claim a version of 3M’s earplugs sold to the military, called CAEv2, were defective and didn’t protect the ears from harmful noise.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• It was needed to fix a defective unit badly in need of playmakers.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
• In this case, the defective gene produces a protein called factor IX, which is part of the cascade that enables clotting.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
• There have been a dozen Bolts that have caught fire while parked, although GM has not confirmed that each of those fires was caused by defective batteries.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2021
• Although there's an outside chance that the new cap is defective, ask your mechanic to scan the system for trouble codes.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
• Police asked about moving her to another room since the door was defective.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 16 July 2021
• Switching a single lock for a new one is easy, but finding all the millions of buildings that have that defective lock would take time and an immense amount of work.
  — Tatum Hunter and Gerrit De Vynck, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
• What if people could access all of those things without being told their brain is defective?
  — Dr Sanah Ahsan, refinery29.com, 6 June 2022
• Or that the Navy discovered recently that the transmission in one of the two classes of ships was defective and needed to be redesigned.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2021
• For us zombie virus researchers, these defective genomes are a goldmine.
  — John Yin, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
• The treatment uses an injection to plant working copies of the defective RPE65 gene into the retina.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
• The adult hemoglobin is what's defective in people with one of these diseases.
  — Marion Renault, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Find a return policy and know your options if the product is defective.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
• About 20% of the Earthbanc audits have an F rating, Duncan says, adding that carbon buyers will not be shown these defective projects.
  — Russell Nichols, Time, 25 Oct. 2022
• One temporary remedy for the defective battery is that Bolt EVs should not be charged indoors, overnight, or to more than a 90 percent state of charge.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2021
• The car was initially stopped because of a defective tail light, officials said.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2021
• The company replaces defective equipment at no cost to you.
  — Sheila Olson, Health.com, 5 May 2021
• The idea behind gene therapy is to replace a defective gene with one that works properly.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 1 June 2021
• Investors don’t sink their money into regimes that are short-lived, corrupt, or defective.
  — Firmin Debrabander, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• The town’s council terminated the contract of Reef Parking because of defective parking meters and the need for new ideas.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2021
• Tesla countered that the speed limiter could not have prevented the crash at the speed the teens were traveling at, and that Riley failed to establish that the battery was defective.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 19 July 2022
• But to make these discoveries, the researchers have sequenced full-length RNA genomes; defective or incomplete viral genomes can complicate analyses, so they are typically ignored or discarded.
  — John Yin, Scientific American, 29 July 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024