imperfectly

Example Sentences

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Purchase imperfect secondhand garden furniture where you can sit and drink tea and read an imperfectly wonderful book by your favorite author.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Producer Jack Antonoff has described making Sabrina Carpenter's Please, Please, Please with physical instruments, played imperfectly, as a reaction to the clinical nature of modern pop.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

It might acknowledge they were following the policy imperfectly, but it’ll say: Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, told agents to do this.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2025

Mr. Berry is also drawn to continuity and coherence: His writing conjures the connectedness and simple moral clarity that the people of Port William imperfectly aspire to.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

When he spoke his mouth worked imperfectly, and when he smiled.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy