Example Sentences

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Decades ago researchers knocked out the genes that control early steps in gibberellin synthesis, but the result was plants that had deformed flowers and abnormal ears.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2023

“Many had deformed hoofs and were infected with herpes. Several mothers had aborted their pregnancies from stress. We found at least 19 fetuses, but counting was difficult—they were small and had started decomposing.”

From National Geographic • Sep. 22, 2017

Cuadrilla had failed to inform Hendry that an earthquake caused by is operations had deformed the casing on its well and he questioned Cuadrilla's "performance as a licensee".

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2013

Her body was only discovered some time after, when the process of decomposition had deformed one of the most pleasing countenances which ever beamed with innocence and piety.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

The quaint ingenuity which had deformed the verses of Donne, and had been a blemish on those of Cowley, disappeared from our poetry.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron