imperfect

Example Sentences

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Systems are imperfect and mistakes happen, meaning “there is an intrinsic risk” that a thief will steal your sensitive data, Schwartz says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Each one was slightly imperfect, dusted generously with cinnamon.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Both approaches can miss events, depend on imperfect memory, and cannot record gas production while someone is asleep.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Kepler was one of the first people since antiquity to propose that the planets were material objects made of imperfect stuff like the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan