How to Use malformed in a Sentence

malformed

adjective
  • Paddy explains that Ant can’t speak because he was born with a malformed tongue.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Moustafa suspected an objection to his son's malformed left arm and hand, which need surgery.
    — Adam Geller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Moustafa suspected an objection to his son’s malformed left arm and hand, which need surgery.
    — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Moustafa suspected an objection to his son's malformed left arm and hand, which need surgery.
    — Adam Geller, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Bluebell will live at the station before and after a surgery to repair a malformed leg.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2018
  • How would these malformed halves function without their complement?
    — Alan Zilberman, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
  • This fungus is not very damaging, and the galls (tumor-like malformed leaf tissue) can just be plucked off and thrown out.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
  • Legacy filters looking for malware or malformed links see nothing amiss.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The ailment causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, tumors in his head and throat and on his lip, and vein problems.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Alone, is that the action all revolves around a malformed porcelain German doll with an upside-down head.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The malformed cells can get stuck in small blood vessels, resulting in severe pain and, over time, organ degradation.
    — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Van der Horst thinks that the rodent’s odd social structure is responsible for its malformed sperm.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2011
  • These malformed red blood cells clog blood vessels and cut off oxygen to the body’s tissues, leading to episodes of severe pain and organ damage.
    — Adam Feuerstein, Scientific American, 7 July 2017
  • Yes, Minister,’ or deploys the sort of malformed logic for which the program was famous.
    — Stephen Benedict Dyson, Washington Post, 20 July 2017
  • But in people with CF, that protein creates a malformed channel or, in some cases, doesn’t make one at all.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • During the height of the Zika epidemic last year, mini brains were used to show the virus causes malformed brains in babies.
    — Maria Cheng, The Seattle Times, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The tall clay-like skin creature looks like a candle melting in human form, without eyes, and with malformed hands that resemble a fetus’ in a sonogram.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Chronic wasting disease is highly infectious and caused by malformed proteins called prions.
    — USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
  • Some dog and cat breeds are genetically more likely to have issues with malformed eyelids, which causes the eyelashes to scrape against the corneas.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 July 2024
  • This attack vector requires a pretty significant hoop to jump through, which is installing an untrusted, malformed app.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The moment is interrupted by the monster, revealed to be a malformed version of Clark’s pirate persona.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Mondini Syndrome is a genetic syndrome where my inner ear is malformed — in this case, my cochlea spirals half the distance a normal cochlea does.
    — Mark Burka, Teen Vogue, 13 Sep. 2017
  • His surpassing cuteness is probably due to his crippling skeletal defects, notably a malformed skull that bugs his eyes and gives him a sort of slackjawed expression.
    — Eliza Gauger, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2007
  • This psychological thriller maps out a world of malformed desire and ingestive paranoia without the need for gutsy special effects.
    — Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Each agent must gracefully handle timeouts, malformed input or missing data from upstream components.
    — Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Examples of skeletal deformities abound in the animal kingdom—think malformed limbs or an abnormal number of toes.
    — Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Heterotaxy syndrome is when a person is born with internal organs that are malformed, misplaced, multiplied, and/or missing.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 27 June 2017
  • The third cub — a female — was found to have a malformed shoulder and elbow, likely congenital, as well as a bullet embedded in her front paw, Thompson said.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The ocular prosthesis can be nearly spherical, like the eyeball, or cup-like, to fit over an existing, malformed and nonfunctioning eye.
    — Christopher Wanjek, Fox News, 17 May 2017
  • On average, the malformed signatures reduced the overall detection rate by 20 percent.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017

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