deformed

Example Sentences

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The combined energy of those bullets created exit wounds so “gaping” that the autopsy described his head as “deformed.”

From Washington Post

Second, researchers need to visit the sites of the rings to look for the deformed rocks and gravitational variations that would indicate a true crater rim.

From Science Magazine

Klug disputed this conclusion, suggesting the shell is instead a deformed phragmocone and body chamber of G. beargulchensis, the known cephalopod.

From Seattle Times

The radar data, however, yielded clues to what seemed to be a young age: reflections indicating ice layers older than 11,700 years are deformed, hinting at an impact around that time.

From Science Magazine

The extreme class consciousness of characters in Proust or, for that matter, in Evelyn Waugh and Louis Auchincloss also tells us a great deal about the inner lives deformed by rigidly hierarchical societies.

From New York Times