How to Use dysfunction in a Sentence

dysfunction

noun

• The disease causes gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
• Good for you, by the way; tough to do amid dysfunction.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• This means the joint moves too much, which is a common cause of dysfunction.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Your husband holds the key to the dysfunction and lack of respect in your household.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The dysfunction in this town is very, very widely known.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
• Horror movies help some of us process all that dysfunction and worst-ness.
  — Sean Abley, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
• On top of all the chaos and dysfunction, more and more members of Congress are heading for the exits.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• There was too much at stake, too much to do, too much to fix, and too much division to the degree of great dysfunction.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2023
• For the second time in a week, the House also canceled votes on two funding bills that lacked the support to pass, adding to the dysfunction.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
• The human brain is the most complex organ on the planet, and the signs of its dysfunction are manifold.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
• Downey was set to play a cop obsessed with bringing the killer to justice in this sendup of Beltway dysfunction.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
• That doesn’t mean your team can’t be better or that it isn’t held back by all-too-common forms of dysfunction.
  — Scott Brown, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• After all the chaos and dysfunction, the British people deserve a say over who governs the country.
  — Laura Beers, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
• The dreams shared in 2018 are gone, instead replaced by pessimism and dysfunction.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• But strife and dysfunction, long bearable parts of life there, have driven the city to paralysis.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• On the other call, with a reporter, Repole tried to explain the dysfunction of horse racing.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Here’s a look at the worst of the Bears, from record to point differential to takeaways to general dysfunction.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• Inflammation is the trigger for most of the dysfunction and disease in our bodies and in our skin.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
• The dysfunction has left area residents with a nagging fear: what happens when a big fire comes?
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• By the fall, the DeSantis operation was mired in a mess of dysfunction.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• At the time, that seemed like a full-time job itself with a franchise so accustomed to losing and dysfunction.
  — Mark Maske, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
• Their dynamic feels very familiar to me, the laughter and the dysfunction.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Still, Morris saw the draft post going live as proof of dysfunction at Insider during the strike.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• The Roys will be back too, for more deals, dysfunction, and drama, and the new season is supposed to pick up just after the big season 3 finale on the timeline.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 25 Mar. 2023
• But so much of the school board meeting dysfunction sweeping the country is as much a battle over symbols as substance.
  — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
• Whether this is a product of a dysfunction specific to New York or the sign of a national bloodbath to come remains to be seen.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Miles was appointed by the state to address the academic decline and dysfunction in the district.
  — Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 21 July 2023
• The disruption in nerve signals leads to dysfunction of mood control.
  — Smita Patel, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
• Naturally, there's plenty of dysfunction as confessions are made, a turkey is flung across the table, a football game leads to a fistfight, and Claudia tries to maintain her sanity.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
• Those symptoms can be warning signs of specific types of cognitive dysfunction, like Lewy body and Parkinson’s dementia (which some but not all people with Parkinson’s disease can develop).
  — Jessie Van Amburg, SELF, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024