deform

Example Sentences

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Because touchdown airbursts often fail to deform the landscape in lasting ways, confirming their occurrence is much more difficult.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

"If we permanently deform a tyre, it doesn't roll efficiently, and we have issues with power loss," says Dr Padula.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

At very high exposures, fluoride can also weaken and deform bones.

From Salon • May 7, 2024

He felt naked, transparent; he felt that this white man, having helped to put him down, having helped to deform him, held him up now to look at him and be amused.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright