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
  • Bluebell will live at the station before and after a surgery to repair a malformed leg.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The ailment causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, tumors in his head and throat and on his lip, and vein problems.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • During the height of the Zika epidemic last year, mini brains were used to show the virus causes malformed brains in babies.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Moustafa suspected an objection to his son's malformed left arm and hand, which need surgery.
    — Adam Geller, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Alone, is that the action all revolves around a malformed porcelain German doll with an upside-down head.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Yes, Minister,’ or deploys the sort of malformed logic for which the program was famous.
    — Stephen Benedict Dyson, Washington Post, 20 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mail crashes on launch after receiving a malformed email.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022
  • BSE, like all spongiform encephalopathy diseases, involves malformed prion proteins that spur normal proteins to deform and clump in the brain and spinal cord.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 July 2017
  • 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
  • How would these malformed halves function without their complement?
    — Alan Zilberman, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
  • One was a jokey baking show in which each participant had made some kind of malformed cake to be mocked by the judges; the other saw Murphy play a manic Christmas elf telling a TV reporter about a polar-bear attack.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • According to Hunt's analysis, some portion of the 711 million email addresses were malformed, or invalid.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Aliyana, who lives in Falls Township, often experiences headaches, labored breathing and pain crises — a severe attack due to malformed cells blocking blood vessels.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
  • Now that Liddle's team has shown that the endocrine cells do, in fact, contain the alpha-synuclein protein, the researchers want to establish that the endocrine cells of Parkinson's patients carry the malformed version of the protein, Liddle said.
    — Amanda Onion Live Science Contributor, Fox News, 19 June 2017
  • Both had piercing blue eyes, inherited from their mother, Ella Friedman Oppenheimer, an artist with a malformed hand always hidden in a glove.
    — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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