How to Use abnormality in a Sentence

abnormality

noun

• There was some abnormality in his vision.
• The test results showed several genetic abnormalities.
• The abnormality of the last year and a half could tilt the playing field, as well.
  — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2021
• Dr. Ocorr and her colleagues will then study the flies for abnormalities in the skeletal and heart muscles and the shape of the hearts.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• If that was the case, the EKG abnormality seen at Alta should be gone too.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Holes in the wall of the septum can cause abnormalities.
  — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 27 July 2024
• The organoids showed abnormalities that can cause all of these.
  — Sharon Begley, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2019
• If a child was born with abnormalities, those were thought to have been caused by the mother’s thoughts.
  — Laura Tropp, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
• But this wasn’t an abnormality the Seahawks can shrug off with a smile.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• The medulla is only about three-quarters of an inch across, and the dot of abnormality on an MRI can be hard to see.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
• And yet, as a kid, even ET’s physical abnormalities weren’t the worst of it.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2014
• It is caused by an abnormality in a gene called PLA2G6.
  — Taylor Grothe, Parents, 28 Feb. 2025
• The human eye might miss a tiny abnormality on a CT scan, but AI can be trained to track the smallest details.
  — Sahil Gupta, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• In fact, Scutti reports that the research may lead to a phone app that users could use to check abnormalities on their skin.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• There was no clot, no mass, but there was an abnormality.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 1 May 2018
• If the tests show abnormalities, the next steps likely include an MRI and a prostate biopsy.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• All three of these abnormalities can be fixed with a minor surgery.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 4 Oct. 2018
• Brink’s art explores the subject of death and abnormality in her drawings and prints.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
• And this abnormality was the cause of many of his medical problems.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• At four months old, Ruuxa had surgery to correct a growth abnormality in his leg.
  — Alexis Gravely, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• The disorder stems from an abnormality in a gene called ush1c, which encodes the proteins in the inner-ear hair cells.
  — Christina Galbraith, Newsweek, 21 May 2017
• Earlier this month, five students at Richards High School had the screening and were found to have some type of abnormality.
  — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
• At the one-year follow-up mark, the patient still did not need insulin and had no transplant abnormalities.
  — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
• On the screen the doctors had seen two abnormalities in the fetus’s brain, problems with his heart, blood filling his kidneys.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
• But about 12 weeks into it, her health-care provider noticed an abnormality in the nasal bone, and began to do testing.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 23 May 2022
• If that assessment confirms the risk, people will be asked to take a PET scan to detect signs of brain abnormalities linked to Alzheimer’s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
• This method is used when there’s a renal or urinary abnormality in the fetus.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• And Mahomes being left off of the Pro Bowl roster is the latest abnormality.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025
• Your healthcare provider may use it to look for abnormalities.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Apr. 2025
• But at the time, researchers couldn’t find any abnormalities within that gene.
  — Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2020