Example Sentences

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This novel centers on Pothivelu Pandaram, a hustling businessman in southern India whose trade consists of managing men and women with physical deformities who beg outside temples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

In Southern California, lions have shown deformities from inbreeding, including kinked tails and malformed sperm.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Leprosy is curable with a combination of different antibiotics, but if left untreated the patients' health can deteriorate with sores and nerve damage that cause deformities.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

The third cluster usually presented with spinal deformities, which may require the standard decompression procedure and possible further spine surgeries.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Doctors had done a small operation just after I was born to remove the tumor that split the middle of my face and caused my facial deformities.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge