How to Use faulty in a Sentence

faulty

adjective
  • What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • In fact, the deficit reduction premise was faulty from the start.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Customers won’t be charged if the item is found to be faulty or the wrong item was shipped.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Or they were caught in house fires sparked by faulty wiring or use of a space heater.
    Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • It was built on assumptions that over the years have proved to be faulty.
    Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • What to Consider The spray bottle tips are known to clog or be faulty.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • There were supposed to be three, but one of the quartz panes was faulty, so its opening had to be plugged with more steel.
    Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • What if, earlier in the day, someone sneaked in through that one window with the faulty latch, then hid in the basement?
    Talia Argondezzi, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Owners will be contacted again when a fix for the faulty part is available.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 15 May 2023
  • Favorable failings The use of faulty AI is not new for the health care industry.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Wolski surprised some by saying the premise of the question may be faulty.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Bankman-Fried wrote a follow-up post asserting that the firm’s findings are faulty.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The Camp Fire was ignited by a faulty transmission line.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Hayes says that’s based on faulty assumptions about how broadly the tax would apply.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The results proved faulty as some motorists didn’t always comply with the set speed limit.
    Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Imagine a hundred projects using the same faulty network to check for issues.
    Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • These migrants’ only hope for a second chance is a faulty smartphone app.
    Lillian Perlmutter, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In the previous decades, the Nazis had cited faulty science to claim the Aryan race was superior.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But that signalling system can be faulty, or get injured.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Receiving a call stating their meter is faulty, in need of repair, and must be paid for.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2023
  • But some of the munitions turned out to be faulty — a mistake by the manufacturer that would take at least a day to fix.
    Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The reasons for failure ranged from the presence of combustible materials to faulty wiring and more.
    Christopher Weber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In 1989, during a live performance, their lip-syncing was exposed due to a faulty tape.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In a statement on Cosori’s website, the company said that faulty wiring could be to blame for these incidents.
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Crews were working on repairs to a faulty transmission line when the electrical mishap took place.
    Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • TikTok has said that the hashtag analyses are faulty and misleading.
    Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In some cases, the state agency specifically said that faulty practices had resulted in the death of the patient.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • The plane’s flight director was faulty; the air traffic controller was distracted; the crew had been misinformed about the weather.
    Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Bad sectors on your hard drive, a faulty power supply, a bad memory stick, or even something that’s plugged into a USB port can be the cause.
    Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 6 Feb. 2023

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