How to Use malignant in a Sentence

malignant

adjective

• Tom Foxx has a malignant neoplasm of the lower lobe in his lung.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• But when the results came back, the news wasn't good; Lauren's was malignant.
  — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 25 June 2021
• The man's heart, starved of oxygen, sped up into a malignant rhythm.
  — Melissa Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• My once-a-day walk of the unit was a stroll through a malignant winter wonderland.
  — Leslie Gauthier, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• They are meant for a network of strangers and are built to be suspicious of malignant forces.
  — Quinn Norton, The Atlantic, 21 May 2018
• The house, too, takes on a more malignant life of its own as Edna steadily becomes a stranger to Kay and Sam.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• But many maintain that there is something malignant about the species.
  — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Just as my half-dream predicted, the tests came back showing the mass was malignant.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• The murder is a crime of passion, a malignant outgrowth of Dmitri’s desire.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• These growths can in some instances progress to malignant cancer with time.
  — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• This common malignant tumor arises in the cerebellum, a part of the brain located at the base of the skull.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• Two weeks later, results of the biopsy came back and showed a malignant tumor.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2020
• The drugs unleash the patient’s own immune system to kill malignant cells.
  — Denise Grady, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The system generates two scores, one for benign and one for malignant, each on a scale of zero to one.
  — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• Testing revealed that the cause was a malignant brain tumor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The mod gives them a receptor that lets them locate and attack malignant cells.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
• The Many Saints echoes the cycle of malignant parenting laid out in the series: Greek tragedy as black comedy.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
• If malignant cells are found, the standard treatment is to surgically remove all the lymph nodes in the same area.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 7 June 2017
• A few months back, Janelle revealed that she was diagnosed with a non-malignant form of skin cancer.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
• That study will assess why cells in those patients turned malignant.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 2 Feb. 2018
• This is where a malignant brain tumor, as yet undiagnosed, struck me down and left me thrashing on the ground.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• Of these surgeries, between 13 to 21% of these cysts are considered to be malignant.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 25 Feb. 2022
• If a cluster of malignant cells is waging a war on your body, everything else is moot, right?
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
• But by summer’s end, the malignant cells had attacked her throat, and finally her bones.
  — Janet Lee, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Was the attack the knee-jerk decision of a malignant narcissist?
  — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
• Now malignant tumors bloomed, appearing on more than half the mice.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The cancer had spread to his lungs, lymph nodes, abdomen and brain; undergoes surgery the next day to have the malignant testicle removed.
  — CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• Zen died at five months old in December from a malignant brain tumor.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 15 July 2022
• A scan of the newborns' abdomen revealed a malignant mass — a rare rhabdoid tumor.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 9 Mar. 2017
• At the novel’s climax, Fessier brings the malignant dwarf and the water-nymph face to face, but before that, several people will die.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024