How to Use disfigure in a Sentence

disfigure

verb

• His face was disfigured by a scar.
• To begin with, this means recognizing that a challenger is far more likely to disrupt than disfigure the order.
  — Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Most of the face is disfigured, and the legs are missing below the knee.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• My surgery had left me pretty disfigured — one breast was the size of a cantaloupe but the other was the size of a grapefruit.
  — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
• Craig’s disfigured body was found wrapped in a tarp in a wooded area in Yates County.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• At the start of 1987, children at play found his corpse in a vacant lot, his face disfigured by splashes of acid.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The hydrochloric acid had done little to disfigure the corpse.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
• Chelsea was disfigured in 2013 when a drunk driver slammed into his car, sparking a fire.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
• His face and hands were clearly disfigured from his injuries.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• The three people who died had been traveling in one of the rail cars that was severely disfigured by the crash impact, NTSB said.
  — Alan Levin, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• Mobster whose face was disfigured after falling in a vat of acid?
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Now, the woman in that video has told Channel 2 Action News that the cosmetic surgery left her disfigured.
  — Terah Boyd, ajc, 4 June 2018
• The patients claim her negligence left them disfigured and, in one case, brain damaged.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• After countless skin grafts and surgeries it had been saved, but had left her slightly disfigured in that area.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• Those curled and disfigured leaves are caused by a fungus that thrives in humidity.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• His body was so disfigured that when it was found three days later, it could only be identified by Till’s signet ring.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 July 2019
• The body was badly disfigured from the fire, and officials are working to identify the man, Leibman said.
  — Asia Fields, The Seattle Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• Trump has disfigured the pardon power to reward friends.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 11 Oct. 2019
• He had been beaten and disfigured and could be identified only by a ring on his finger.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Emmett Till, 14, is laid out on a cot in a Chicago funeral home, his face disfigured and bloated.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• So is the white gauze mask that usually covers the lower half of her face, the part most badly disfigured by her suicide attempt.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2019
• When a fight ends with her husband dead and Julien disfigured, the lover undergoes reconstructive surgery to look like the husband and hide the murder.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 July 2023
• Chelsea has led a difficult life the last few years — he was left severely disfigured after he was hit by a drunk driver in 2013.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Our democracy would be disfigured at best and at worst destroyed.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
• Hotels and high-rise condos were disfigured, their balconies sheared away as though a malevolent giant had clawed through the city.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Wales has many – and win it for Labour, the center-left party that grew out of the union movement that organized the miners in the collieries which defined and disfigured these valleys.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2019
• His beaten and bloodied body was wrapped in a tarp, and investigators said some type of acid had been used in an attempt to disfigure the victim's face and hands.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
• By then corpses are often too swollen and disfigured to be recognizable.
  — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
• His leg was visibly disfigured, and the Cavs bench had an animated reaction to the gnarly image in front of them.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Police say the 5-year-old suffered a third-degree burn on her face that will leave her permanently disfigured.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 6 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024