How to Use flaw in a Sentence

flaw

1 of 2 noun
  • Each of these claims has a flaw.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Close was sure to find flaws too.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Yet, the flaws jump off the page.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There’s not a lot of flaws in his game.
    — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But there are a lot of flaws to fix, too.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Each of them had one clear flaw with their dish.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But his plan has some flaws, to say the least.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This is an area in which Greenspan had a flaw.
    — Harry Kraemer, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • This is what a fatal flaw looks like.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Critics will point out his many flaws.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Foldable phones all share one flaw.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Each method has flaws and leaves people out.
    — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
  • These are the flaws that make the magic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The scheme has covered the flaws.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Chawinga more than covers those flaws.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
  • And that is a flaw, that’s a mistake.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Experts in tax law say that case has some big flaws.
    — Tamara Keith, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
  • These are the kinds of matchups that expose a team’s flaws.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In time, though, his flaws became what he was known for.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The Knicks aren’t without flaws.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Try not to let minor flaws or mistakes get you down.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026
  • That is the real flaw in the system.
    — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • In Greek tragedies, the hero is felled by a fatal flaw.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Supreme Court says there were deep flaws with the charges.
    — ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • His only minor flaw comes off the bike.
    — Andy McGrath, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That’s a flaw in the design, in my opinion.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The last two days have forced me to take a very hard look at my own troubling flaws.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts; that's a flaw in our thinking.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In his view, this points to a design flaw in the door plug itself.
    — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Even with their flaws, people resonate with them.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

flaw

2 of 2 verb
  • This process is flawed and it can be changed.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
  • This process is flawed and it can be changed.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Black women get to be flawed in this world.
    — Candice Frederick, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
  • This decision is flawed on its face.
    — A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026
  • Like, people aren't allowed to be flawed now?
    — EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Vmake’s video enhancer suite rescues flawed footage.
    — New Atlas, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The lesson from the 1990s is not that these ideas were flawed.
    — Maria Flynn, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Yet despite all the improvements, there are pieces of tech that have been flawed for years.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Some researchers believe there is some merit to those concerns, even if the memo was flawed.
    — Angelo Fichera, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • That rule, however, which dates to 1887, has been flawed from the start.
    — Matt Martell, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Fennell chooses the former, and flawed or not, this drunk-on-pheromones take is all the better for it.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Even body mass index—the tool that providers use to diagnose obesity—may be flawed.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Those studies were later found to be flawed and eventually pulled.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Slater takes on the role of Bob Olson, the adored but flawed father at the heart of the story.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This means knowing that AI has a purpose and a set of rules, and that it can be biased or flawed.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Rakofsky said on Friday the deputies and their union remain convinced the process was flawed from the outset.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In parts of the world, contradiction is survivable; an artist can be luminous and flawed in the same breath.
    — Steven Gray, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Kirby Smart’s team is good enough to run the table and flawed enough to lose any of its remaining games in conference play.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • But if the structure is flawed, the acting and characterization of the central trio are not.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The authors also said the findings produced by AI are only as good as the data used, which could be flawed.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Experts have said that the process for Syria’s rehabilitation has been flawed.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Each inspection requires two months to dismantle the engine, replace the discs (if flawed), and reassemble them.
    — Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • For some who have followed the case, the Supreme Court ruling was the culmination of a process that has been flawed at every step of the way.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • Paul Mitchell, a political data expert, called the Emerson poll flawed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Court of Cassation found that the murder investigation had been flawed from the start.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Although flawed in many ways, the BWC has helped prevent the spread of biological weapons.
    — Liyam Chitayat, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Original studies suggesting a link were flawed and have been discredited.
    — Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Rather than finally admit the approach was flawed, Congress doubled down and passed Dodd-Frank.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The film itself is flawed, compromised by its own subject matter and an explosive marketing campaign.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 July 2023
  • My dad speaks amazingly fluent and flawed German for a New Yorker who never studied it in school.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026

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