deformed
Example Sentences
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"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
There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
When the metal is deformed, dislocations twist and shift, nudging nearby atoms into preferred positions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2025
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
He shuddered at the description of the tailor Petrovich’s big toe, “with its deformed nail as thick and hard as the shell of a tortoise.”
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
