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

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

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

I did not tell Jaja to stop, or point out that it was his deformed finger that he was running over the painting.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie