How to Use deformed in a Sentence

deformed

adjective
  • As the hot parts cool, the alloy bounces back to its deformed shape.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2022
  • Their limbs were withered and leaves deformed; the wood looked like rot.
    Darryl Fears, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • One deformed bad guy with Force powers is down for the count?
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Bricks in the hottest zones tended to burn black and were badly deformed.
    Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 2 May 2018
  • Open one and check for no pit or maybe a deformed pit inside.
    oregonlive, 22 May 2022
  • The blast left the front part of Northup's eye deformed, damaging the cornea and bruising the retina.
    Ashley Welch, CBS News, 29 June 2018
  • Maud Lewis was born deformed with no chin and a small childlike frame.
    Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The worms, which looked like deformed prunes, were denser and nuttier.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • The fragile colt was weak and underweight, deaf, couldn’t walk on his deformed hooves and was about the size of a housecat.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Nor is the spread the only form of perverted or deformed language in The Topeka School.
    Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Planting Sweet potatoes will grow in poor soil, but roots may be deformed in heavy clay or long and stringy in sandy soil.
    The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 15 Mar. 2017
  • In the coal-mining town of Vorkuta, about 40 percent of buildings have become deformed from changes in the ground.
    Melody Schreiber, WIRED, 14 May 2018
  • Six-year-old Aida was born with deformed fingers on both hands.
    National Geographic, 24 May 2016
  • Many of the birds were deformed, distressed and diseased, the court said, although eight pigeons appeared to be healthy.
    Maura Dolan, latimes.com, 1 May 2018
  • In 2011, a pod adopted a deformed bottlenose dolphin, which had been spurned.
    Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • To show that the changes in gene activity had an impact on the bees' immune function, the authors turned to the deformed wing virus.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
  • In one scene the camera pans across a wall adorned with deformed crucifixes.
    David Obuchowski, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Police found a bullet hole in the driver’s side door and a deformed bullet was found on the passenger side.
    Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
  • To pass muster, no element of a panel may fall off or become deformed during the test.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • As a child, he was stuck in a full-body cast for months at a time because his left leg was deformed and his bones kept breaking at the weak spots, snapping like old twigs.
    Jeff Seidel, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Even in health William is a sad figure, with his bony hips, his broken finger, his curled-up, slightly deformed feet, and his scars.
    National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Bies and his team could identify the source of the deformed bullet as an Enfield rifle musket.
    Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
  • That’s what bees do when others in their hive are infected with something called deformed wing virus, the paper notes.
    Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • An initial search showed a deformed pitcher protruding from the soil.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • The deformed carp is the latest unusual fish to generate buzz.
    Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • Transplanting them tends to damage the root and leads to a deformed, poor-quality produce.
    NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Robert Hoge is the author of Ugly, a memoir for children about growing up disabled and deformed.
    Robert Hoge, Good Housekeeping, 12 Sep. 2016
  • Their sperm may largely consist of deformed weaklings, but there are clearly enough normal ones to make more naked mole rats.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2011
  • The U.S. alone now possesses over 4,000 nuclear weapons, which are much more powerful than the bomb that deformed Shigeko.
    Eric Singer, Teen Vogue, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Inside the condo, police found a bullet strike on a stove vent behind where GPK had been standing and a deformed bullet on the floor beneath the pipe.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2018

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