How to Use deformation in a Sentence

deformation

noun
  • On the third day, the arm and all signs of pain and deformation were completely healed.
    — Brian Webster, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2025
  • That's what is being measured by the deformation of the crust.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That deformation could leave weak spots in the rock, causing earthquakes.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
  • There is even little deformation to the volcano as no magma is forcing its way up.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2014
  • Up close, the gleaming aluminum skin is textured with deformations and dents.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Some folks are complaining about a deformation known as cat facing.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Since then, the daily deformation has been measured only in fractions of an inch.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Ground deformation caused by a vast iron ore mine, reports the New York Times.
    — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2016
  • In turn, those spacetime deformations instruct the mass and energy how to move.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
  • Mapping of the land surface using radar shows a lot of deformation -- more than can be explained by earthquakes alone.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The initial torquing stretches the bolt along its length nearly to its limit of elastic deformation.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2021
  • These cracks may be forming due to the stress from the earthquakes or from the deformation of the land from magma rising up under the area.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Right now, the deformation zone looks to be just south of our region, setting up along and just south of I-68.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • As the bodies move around each other, the orientation of that deformation moves, too.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • These rip along Earth’s surface, leading to dramatic deformation of the ground.
    — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In the northern Sierra, there are currently no signs of deformation.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • When the temperature changes the pointer moves depending on the amount of deformation of the bimetal coil.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Rheology is a branch of physics that deals with the deformation and fluidity of matter.
    — Leath Tonino, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This activity is most likely the cause for the deformation at the center of the volcanic system, the paper notes.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Some of the victims showed evidence of skull deformations, a custom that was practice in some of the highland areas during that time.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Sokolowski says this can break the foam structure, causing permanent deformation.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There had been tremendous deformation and movement within this zone, part of it involving the consumption of an entire ocean basin.
    — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This can appear as small cracks on the sides or in the treads of the tires, light discoloration, or carcass deformation, which means the tire is becoming misshaped.
    — David Muller, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The cooling transitions were smooth, and the surface retained its gloss without deformation.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • One of the major areas for improvement is deformation, which is the way the force of an impact presses material way out of shape.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2022
  • That's why monitoring the earthquakes, deformation of the land and the gas emissions are vital to look for signs of change that could be leading to an eruption.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
  • The term refers to broad features of the braid — for example, the number of turns — that aren’t affected by any specific deformation of their path.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • The new model now includes all the deformation zones north of India as the plate bulldozes its way into Eurasia.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The deformation depends on a single free exponent.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 May 2026
  • Most of the shifts and deformations gradually returned to normal by six months after return to Earth.
    — Rachael Seidler, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2026

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