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
• What these seeming anomalies say, at least interpreted in light of the last 86 years of policing in Minneapolis, is that a deformed version of cop culture can be even stronger than blood.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Their thinking was bolstered by an unusual specimen of Walliserops with a deformed trident bearing four prongs instead of the usual three.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2024