Example Sentences

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But Gregg makes a bigger case about how human intelligence has deformed the planet as well.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Finally, surveys using Global Positioning Satellite measurements of land shifts show that any stress building toward another fault rupture there has deformed the crust in the region very little if at all in recent years.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2011

But when 300 Long Island, N.Y., veterans, wives and children met at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bay Shore, they exchanged tales of a terror that has deformed their lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

His vocation has deformed his body, leaving him with a bony chest and shoulders, arms that are stumpy and weak.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ill-treatment has deformed their souls in those portions that offered the least resistance.

From The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 by Stewart, D. B.