How to Use deformed in a Sentence

deformed

adjective
  • 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
  • Maud Lewis was born deformed with no chin and a small childlike frame.
    — Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Bricks in the hottest zones tended to burn black and were badly deformed.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 2 May 2018
  • Central Park, for instance, has been reduced to a small, deformed square.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Planting Sweet potatoes will grow in poor soil, but roots may be deformed in heavy clay or long and stringy in sandy soil.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
  • To pass muster, no element of a panel may fall off or become deformed during the test.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Its deformed and empty boxes appeared to have been crushed under a landslide of green checks.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nicola said three of the four turkeys were rescue animals with deformed feet that had been sitting on eggs when they were taken.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At the top, mountains made of heated and deformed volcanic ash and sandstone cover pockets of copper.
    — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 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
  • Rabbit, mouse, and hedgehog moms sometimes eat their young when there’s too many in a litter for the food available or when babies are born dead or deformed.
    — Libby Copeland, Slate Magazine, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Last month, Ruden posted an emotional video to his Youtube page, revealing his deformed hand.
    — Elyse Samuels, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Another species' larva forces its spider host to spin it a deformed but durable web to protect its cocoon just before killing the arachnid.
    — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 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
  • Robert Hoge is the author of Ugly, a memoir for children about growing up disabled and deformed.
    — Robert Hoge, Good Housekeeping, 12 Sep. 2016
  • Nor is the spread the only form of perverted or deformed language in The Topeka School.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Based on the way the sediment beneath the prints had been deformed and the lack of even a thin sediment layer between the surfaces of the prints, the sloth tracks were still relatively fresh when the hunter followed.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018

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