How to Use irregularity in a Sentence

irregularity

noun

• He is suffering from irregularity.
• Turnout was low at less than 40%, around half of that in the poll held in August, which was annulled by the supreme court because of irregularities.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• The vote — the fourth since the 2003 U.S.-led toppling of Saddam Hussein — was marked by reports of low turnout and irregularities.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
• Cut the parts to size, fasten them, and belt-sand any irregularities.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
• The 1964 vote rested on just six votes and a few irregularities.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• In a first for Africa, the outcome of those elections was annulled by the country’s Supreme Court, which ruled they had been marred by irregularities.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Now there were irregularities in that election -- they were reviewed by the courts around the country.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• To go back to our soap layer, imagine a wave of light being split into two by an irregularity in the soap film.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• Mapping of the area beneath the pyramid turned up an irregularity that looked to be a tunnel.
  — Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• While the man spoke with a deputy, the deputy noticed irregularities in the man’s speech and called for medical assistance.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• The irregularity of Earth’s spin led scientists to study a new way to measure time.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2022
• Past elections won by Mr. Biya have been called flawed and full of irregularities.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Maybe all of Swift’s less-than-lofty track record in recent years in terms of wins is a testament to some of Dugan’s claims of voting irregularities.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2020
• The real point of the game is to get Utahns to provide an affidavit of a voting irregularity.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
• Testers felt the fit was true to size with a small amount of stretch throughout the upper to accommodate foot swelling or irregularities, such as bunions.
  — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2024
• The answer, of course, is that legs are the best way to maneuver across the irregularities of a planetary landscape, up cliffs and through muddy swamps.
  — Charles S. Cockell, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• In moments like those, when the failure will be magnified solely because of the irregularity of the play call and who’s on the field, Reich will have to steady himself.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
• There were a lot of discrepancies and irregularities in the archival footage.
  — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 6 July 2018
• The panel has denied that there were widespread irregularities in the vote.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Some airlines also have built in back-up plans in case of irregularities.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2024
• She was then referred for a test that would be able to detect any irregularities in her cervical cells.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
• Air traffic control drew the pilot's attention to the irregularity and urged a go-around, Khan said.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2020
• But Plotkin found just as many instances where selection drove verbs toward irregularity: Dived gave way to dove, lighted to lit, waked to woke, and sneaked to snuck.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• An analysis of the paper didn’t, in itself, ring alarm bells, but irregularities in the image did.
  — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Project Rousseau’s lawyers said any irregularities could count against them.
  — Olivia Bensimon Todd Heisler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The imaging system found irregularities in the roof and a front quarter panel.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• Five judges agreed there had been a range of irregularities and canceled the election results in February.
  — Rabson Kondowe, Quartz Africa, 6 Apr. 2020
• Ghosn was not supposed to leave Japan prior to his trial on three sets of charges of financial irregularities.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2020
• There were lots of voting machine irregularities, and issues sending the results to the main hub via satellite.
  — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024
• Authorities in both states, which have a collective 34 electoral votes in the Presidential Election, denied any irregularities.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025