How to Use faulty in a Sentence

faulty

adjective

• Alexander Eisner, the couple’s lawyer, pins the accident on a faulty gate.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• The Russian group has previously blamed faulty or delayed equipment for lower flows.
  — Reuters, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• But for a century, agreements governing how it's shared have been based on faulty assumptions about how much water is available.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• Used car retailers continue to sell potentially faulty cars and trucks with open recalls in most places while new car dealers legally can't.
  — Matthew Dolan, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
• An overwhelming 81% said that faulty data has led to an embarrassing mistake with a customer.
  — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• However, faulty wiring is also common in Egypt and other countries in the region, as are devastating fires.
  — Nada Rashwan, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• This was because their faulty equipment was blamed for two of California’s most devastating recent wildfires.
  — W. Kamau Bell, CNN, 28 July 2022
• The spacecraft’s faulty thrusters were located in a portion of the ship known as the service module—a section that is jettisoned and burns up in the atmosphere before reentry.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
• This usually leads to faulty assumptions when suggesting credit solutions.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Winning on fraud would suggest that the contract was faulty and unenforceable from the beginning, and also cancel the agreement, setting Musk free.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022
• What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
• In fact, the deficit reduction premise was faulty from the start.
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Customers won’t be charged if the item is found to be faulty or the wrong item was shipped.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• Or they were caught in house fires sparked by faulty wiring or use of a space heater.
  — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
• It was built on assumptions that over the years have proved to be faulty.
  — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• What to Consider The spray bottle tips are known to clog or be faulty.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
• Some had been left vacant and rotting, with faulty wiring and leaky roofs.
  — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• There were supposed to be three, but one of the quartz panes was faulty, so its opening had to be plugged with more steel.
  — Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• What if, earlier in the day, someone sneaked in through that one window with the faulty latch, then hid in the basement?
  — Talia Argondezzi, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• The valve that went faulty during launch also did not come back online when the crew test-fired the spacecraft's thrusters.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• The second launch, two years later, was also plagued by faulty thrusters.
  — Joel Mathis, theweek, 2 Aug. 2024
• Owners will be contacted again when a fix for the faulty part is available.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 15 May 2023
• Researchers are now trying to find the locations in the brain that send faulty signals to the larynx.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Favorable failings The use of faulty AI is not new for the health care industry.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• The plant was dealing with a faulty valve discovered the day before, so no pellets were rolling off the line.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Wolski surprised some by saying the premise of the question may be faulty.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• Bankman-Fried wrote a follow-up post asserting that the firm’s findings are faulty.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2023
• The Camp Fire was ignited by a faulty transmission line.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• George Gascón, the city of Los Angeles and the investigators who built the faulty case against him.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024