deformed

Example Sentences

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This extensive reorganization produces a highly deformed nuclear shape.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

More than a dozen countries took part in the weeks-long search for the vessel, which was eventually located a year later by a private British marine robotics firm, its hull dented and deformed.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The medical examiner retrieved a deformed metal projectile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

She also excavated a few gems, including a star sapphire ring that belonged to her late father and an inexpensive metal lotus bowl that I had loved, deformed but still somehow itself.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025

He studied as that skin thickened, and deformed, and resolved, shaping itself as inevitably as a fetus growing eyes, growing ears.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen