How to Use faulty in a Sentence

faulty

adjective
  • Those chairs are in bad shape, with sticky wheels and faulty hand brakes.
    — Sophie Neiman, NPR, 20 June 2026
  • If the dome light does not come on that door may have a faulty switch.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The issue could be a faulty door, trunk, or hood switch.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Or they were caught in house fires sparked by faulty wiring or use of a space heater.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • Chances are if one sensor is faulty the rest will follow.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Or, as true my own faulty lens can ever depict them.
    — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But this is based on faulty reasoning.
    — Caleb Pomeroy, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, the deficit reduction premise was faulty from the start.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • It was built on assumptions that over the years have proved to be faulty.
    — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • When parts fail, the most typical thing to look for are faulty brakes.
    — Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Customers won’t be charged if the item is found to be faulty or the wrong item was shipped.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Some had been left vacant and rotting, with faulty wiring and leaky roofs.
    — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Plenty, and a faulty adapter could leave you on the hook for damage to both.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Plenty, and a faulty adapter could leave you on the hook for damage to both.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The first is faulty training data.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The fire was caused by a faulty space heater on the third floor, city officials said.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Their work opened with a problem caused by a faulty ice maker in the basement.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The lawyers say faulty equipment on the line ignited both blazes in the same way.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    — David Koenig and Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The news spurred some brutal jokes and memes all aimed at faulty little Frank.
    — Fortune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The second launch, two years later, was also plagued by faulty thrusters.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Equipped with this faulty lock pick, the virus had a harder time invading host cells.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2020
  • Oftentimes, the absence of smoke alarms, or faulty ones, are to blame.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • The issue could be a faulty blend-door motor, wiring, or control.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
  • Check each one to eliminate a faulty outlet as the source of the problem.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • Owners will be contacted again when a fix for the faulty part is available.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 15 May 2023
  • The image is based on faulty accounting of voter turnout in the state.
    — Amanda Seitz, Star Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020

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