deformed

Example Sentences

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This extensive reorganization produces a highly deformed nuclear shape.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The medical examiner retrieved a deformed metal projectile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 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

Further investigation revealed that eight frames, the ribs of the ship's structural skeleton, were deformed and that more steel replacement was required.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

As though a cloud has drifted away and for a moment Bastian’s true, deformed character has come glaring through.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr