How to Use malformed in a Sentence

malformed

adjective

• Bluebell will live at the station before and after a surgery to repair a malformed leg.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2018
• The ailment causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, tumors in his head and throat and on his lip, and vein problems.
  — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
• During the height of the Zika epidemic last year, mini brains were used to show the virus causes malformed brains in babies.
  — Maria Cheng, The Seattle Times, 23 Aug. 2017
• Moustafa suspected an objection to his son's malformed left arm and hand, which need surgery.
  — Adam Geller, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
• Yes, Minister,’ or deploys the sort of malformed logic for which the program was famous.
  — Stephen Benedict Dyson, Washington Post, 20 July 2017
• These malformed red blood cells clog blood vessels and cut off oxygen to the body’s tissues, leading to episodes of severe pain and organ damage.
  — Adam Feuerstein, Scientific American, 7 July 2017
• The malformed cells can get stuck in small blood vessels, resulting in severe pain and, over time, organ degradation.
  — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• Van der Horst thinks that the rodent’s odd social structure is responsible for its malformed sperm.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2011
• BSE, like all spongiform encephalopathy diseases, involves malformed prion proteins that spur normal proteins to deform and clump in the brain and spinal cord.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 July 2017
• Mondini Syndrome is a genetic syndrome where my inner ear is malformed — in this case, my cochlea spirals half the distance a normal cochlea does.
  — Mark Burka, Teen Vogue, 13 Sep. 2017
• How would these malformed halves function without their complement?
  — Alan Zilberman, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
• One was a jokey baking show in which each participant had made some kind of malformed cake to be mocked by the judges; the other saw Murphy play a manic Christmas elf telling a TV reporter about a polar-bear attack.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2019
• His surpassing cuteness is probably due to his crippling skeletal defects, notably a malformed skull that bugs his eyes and gives him a sort of slackjawed expression.
  — Eliza Gauger, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2007
• According to Hunt's analysis, some portion of the 711 million email addresses were malformed, or invalid.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
• Aliyana, who lives in Falls Township, often experiences headaches, labored breathing and pain crises — a severe attack due to malformed cells blocking blood vessels.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• Now that Liddle's team has shown that the endocrine cells do, in fact, contain the alpha-synuclein protein, the researchers want to establish that the endocrine cells of Parkinson's patients carry the malformed version of the protein, Liddle said.
  — Amanda Onion Live Science Contributor, Fox News, 19 June 2017
• The ocular prosthesis can be nearly spherical, like the eyeball, or cup-like, to fit over an existing, malformed and nonfunctioning eye.
  — Christopher Wanjek, Fox News, 17 May 2017
• Chronic wasting disease is highly infectious and caused by malformed proteins called prions.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• On average, the malformed signatures reduced the overall detection rate by 20 percent.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
• Examples of skeletal deformities abound in the animal kingdom—think malformed limbs or an abnormal number of toes.
  — Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 22 Sep. 2017
• Heterotaxy syndrome is when a person is born with internal organs that are malformed, misplaced, multiplied, and/or missing.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 27 June 2017
• The cranium has ruminated for decades in a display case, amid pathological and anatomical anomalies such as malformed fetuses and pickled liver stones.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Like Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's has been associated with tangles of malformed proteins that accumulate in the dying cells.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
• The drug exposure caused a range of negative effects, including malformed membranes and reproductive difficulties.
  — Amorina Kingdon, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024