deformed

Example Sentences

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They have been shaped, but not deformed, by military service.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

"The glass windows in our homes were shattered, aluminum window frames were deformed, and even the stainless-steel doors were twisted out of shape," she said.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

"A planet caught in resonance finds its orbit deformed to higher and higher eccentricities, precessing faster and faster while staying in tune with the orbit of the binary, which is shrinking," Touma said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Sun, however, had a problem: a deformed finger that slowed him down and drew the ire of his overseers.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

In 1953, after sinking a series of experimental bores, university geologists agreed that the site was indeed anomalous and attributed the deformed rocks to some ancient, unspecified volcanic action.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson