How to Use imperfection in a Sentence

imperfection

noun

• She tried to hide the imperfection in the cloth.
• He detected several imperfections in the surface of the jewel.
• Against the crooked imperfection of the word, this happened.
  — Elizabeth Willis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• That imperfection, though, is all the more on show now.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• The road back down to street level curls around the back of the butte in a series of steep straights, fast turns and road imperfections.
  — William Roberson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• But for her, the potential for imperfection is part of the point.
  — Marc Hogan, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
• Fog sealant is used to fill in cracks and imperfections on a road surface and can preserve the life of the pavement.
  — David Williams, CNN, 8 Oct. 2019
• The idea is to call attention to the flaw rather than hide it, to accept the imperfection and work to enhance it.
  — Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
• Matte nails don’t leave a lot of room for imperfections, so keep this in mind.
  — Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2024
• This, my friend, is where the magic happens – in the imperfection, in the failing and doing.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
• But experts need to learn to live with imperfection as people do with the virus.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• Get ready to blur imperfections and help your skin thrive with these must-have products.
  — Jessica Copeland, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
• But at the core of them all is a very simple idea: Assume imperfection.
  — Alexander Gounares, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Fired up after the back and forth, Bryant went on to discuss how just like any good piece of art, there’s beauty in the imperfections, too.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• That’s the beauty, that’s the imperfection—no one has a perfect life, and there are no stories that are perfect.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
• And there are many who try to pick at the imperfections of the experiment, as if catching them in a lie, Sarah says.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
• How does the process of injecting filler into the nose work to fix imperfections?
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 11 Mar. 2019
• At the bottom right, Ginger Strawhorn checks the cloth for imperfections.
  — Bob Davis, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• The carbon frame is designed to act like a shock absorber, deflecting up to 4mm to take the edge off imperfections in the road.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2019
• For Nelson, the cheeky, decades-old imperfection captures the way Chicagoans can laugh at themselves.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• Then, powder the tissue over the lip with translucent powder to keep it in place and blur out imperfections.
  — Kate Watson, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
• The bacteria from the brush will then be transferred to your skin and cause skin imperfections, breakouts and clogged pores.
  — Gianluca Russo, Teen Vogue, 31 Oct. 2019
• Eventually, the student gets the AI to just the right level of imperfection in the essay.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• Since each vase is handmade, the color will vary from smoky gray to black, and imperfections may exist.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
• All that imperfection only grows more chaotic as the game goes on, as the friction from the stones modifies the ice.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Sep. 2020
• The missed notes and off-kilter sounds are part of his art, which is the promise of the real, but also, even mainly, of imperfection.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
• Thats because the blue light tends to enhance all those imperfections that a soft glow flatters.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 26 Feb. 2020
• People are often amazed to see that the sky didn’t fall and that there is much to be said for the freedom of embracing imperfection.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• If peace has always been but a simple voluntary choice, the price of human imperfection has been paid in the coin of perpetual war.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
• Their lumpy shapes feel not like imperfections but visual reminders of the handcrafted nature of their creation, proof that they’ve been lovingly sculpted with the beauty of truth, not the tyranny of realism.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024