How to Use disfigure in a Sentence

disfigure

verb
  • His face was disfigured by a scar.
  • Most of the face is disfigured, and the legs are missing below the knee.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • His face and hands were clearly disfigured from his injuries.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • The incident left her face disfigured and her throat burned.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Mobster whose face was disfigured after falling in a vat of acid?
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Our democracy would be disfigured at best and at worst destroyed.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • The bodies were that disfigured.
    — NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
  • These diseases can disfigure the leaves and the fruit, reduce the yield, and weaken or kill the tree over time.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The hydrochloric acid had done little to disfigure the corpse.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • Use a sharp pair of pruners and be careful not to disfigure the shrub or tree while harvesting branches.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Those curled and disfigured leaves are caused by a fungus that thrives in humidity.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • After countless skin grafts and surgeries it had been saved, but had left her slightly disfigured in that area.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The patients claim her negligence left them disfigured and, in one case, brain damaged.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • By then corpses are often too swollen and disfigured to be recognizable.
    — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
  • He had been beaten and disfigured and could be identified only by a ring on his finger.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • My surgery had left me pretty disfigured — one breast was the size of a cantaloupe but the other was the size of a grapefruit.
    — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
  • Their bodies had been so badly disfigured that their families had not been allowed to see them.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Other videos show the aftermath, with the victims' faces or hands disfigured.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
  • His body was so disfigured that when it was found three days later, it could only be identified by Till’s signet ring.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 July 2019
  • The disfiguring bulge in Dinah’s lower face went away.
    — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • Chelsea was disfigured in 2013 when a drunk driver slammed into his car, sparking a fire.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • In Sanskrit, hanu means jaw, while man translates to prominent or disfigured.
    — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The girl suffered a third-degree burn across her face that will leave her permanently disfigured, police said.
    — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • But the bombing killed five of their relatives, one of whom was disfigured beyond recognition.
    — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Hotels and high-rise condos were disfigured, their balconies sheared away as though a malevolent giant had clawed through the city.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And the filmmaker, who’s disfigured himself, really wanted to bring it out in the open.
    — Elena Nelson Howe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • At the start of 1987, children at play found his corpse in a vacant lot, his face disfigured by splashes of acid.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Killing or seriously disfiguring a neighbor's plants can be grounds for a court battle.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
  • So is the white gauze mask that usually covers the lower half of her face, the part most badly disfigured by her suicide attempt.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Police say the 5-year-old suffered a third-degree burn on her face that will leave her permanently disfigured.
    — Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 6 Feb. 2018

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