How to Use deform in a Sentence

deform

verb

• The disease eventually causes the bones to deform.
• The disease eventually deforms the bones.
• Flight attendants have also been asked not to open cans that appear deformed.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
• Instead, the authors of the new study reasoned the phenomenon hinges on their cell membranes, which are made largely of lipids—fatty, compressible molecules easily deformed by changes in pressure.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024
• Tires made that way bounce back even if they're deformed all the way to their rim and hub.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• His face was bruised, his arms and legs were deformed, and he had been burned.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• With the heat of recent fires, parts of that off-road beast are now melted and deformed.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
• There is the sense of these two men, Cope and Marsh, and how their rivalry deforms them.
  — Sam Kashner, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
• Glaciers and ice sheets can be hundreds of feet to miles thick and all that pressure can deform the ice.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• And the ground began to deform, likely due to flows of magma.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2021
• This mesh helps keep the ball from deforming when kicked, which stops the ball from veering while in flight.
  — Mark McClusky, WIRED, 30 May 2002
• Trump’s hands look deformed, and the person on the far left is missing a ring finger.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• And when stronger heat waves hit in the future, the roads will be more likely to deform and develop ruts.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2021
• His feet were slightly deformed from wearing the wrong size.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2019
• The ice pressure had deformed the skull without breaking it.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2018
• If a wheel is deformed, another machine in the shop can grind it true.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Others worry that injecting pay can deform how and why the work is done in the first place.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
• This is very similar to the force required to stretch a spring, which is much harder to deform than a straight wire.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 4 June 2021
• In some cases, arthritis can even make the joints appear deformed.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• The front and rear deform in a crash to absorb all of the impact, spreading it away from the passenger compartment.
  — Blake Z. Rong, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2018
• Icequakes can deform ice sheets and contribute to their flow toward the sea.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
• The vitamin A then gets recycled and reshaped, ready to be deformed by light once again.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 17 May 2018
• When looking in the mirror, a patient’s own visage might seem deformed.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
• That means building CO2 turbines with metals that won’t crack, distend, or deform, and making them big enough to take the abuse.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 26 May 2017
• Her left ear was deformed and cut; her nose was broken; her lower lip split open; and her left cheek discolored.
  — Meagan Flynn, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• The press must squeeze the component where needed with robotic control, deforming the part bit by bit.
  — Glenn S. Daehn, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
• Images from a crash site in Moscow showed the façade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor, with glass shattered and structural beams snapped and deformed.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 30 July 2023
• Images from a crash site in the capital showed the façade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor, with glass shattered and structural beams snapped and deformed.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 31 July 2023
• The powertrain software in some of these cars may not work properly, which could deform the fuel tank.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 July 2019
• Beech leaf disease is caused by tiny, invasive round worms that feed on the inside of beech leaf buds, causing the leaves to become deformed.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024