How to Use altered in a Sentence

altered

adjective

• One in the group is charged with having an altered firearm.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
• For both sides in this grinding war, respite is sought in an altered state.
  — Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• In my altered state, the prairie dog has come back to half-life and is taunting me.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 29 Sep. 2020
• The altered lyrics are the ones that are now sung at Churchill Downs.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• That could make altered images far more common.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Mar. 2026
• Anosmia is the loss of smell; dysgeusia is an altered sense of taste.
  — USA Today, 18 May 2020
• The altered version cuts her off mid-sentence and plays the audio of the boy yelling.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021
• How much of Oahu's altered landscape was our doing?
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
• The fighter's nose shape, canopy, air intakes, and wheel doors were all altered and improved.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2017
• The altered version of the interlude is now the second verse on the new song.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
• Now the conservancy hopes the cows will do the same to the altered landscape.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• Neither of us had been there in nearly a decade and couldn’t believe the altered landscape.
  — Molly Young, Vulture, 12 July 2021
• Davis’s eyes were stuck on the middle of the second row, on the altered version of herself.
  — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, 10 May 2018
• Even those with altered flights due to the Max grounding have remained loyal.
  — Andrea Leinfelder, ExpressNews.com, 16 Dec. 2019
• Coach Matt Rhule doesn’t have to love the altered state of college football.
  — Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
• Diplo didn’t hold back about his altered state of mind on New Year’s Eve.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 1 Jan. 2025
• Even in his altered state of mind, Chandra warned the rescue team, Ty was fit.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Might we, this time, be granted an on-screen peek into their altered circumstances?
  — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
• Stool and blood tests, by contrast, detect altered cells that already exist.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 27 Oct. 2025
• The two sides discussed an altered 2018 contract, but couldn’t agree to a deal.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The altered bill would have to return to the House before going to Biden's desk.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2021
• Aldean is not the first artist to upload an altered version of a music video to YouTube.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• His inner turmoil, and the altered presence of Bert, don’t get the same sense of detail.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
• The altered self-portrait was one of 93 works selected from around the country.
  — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 Dec. 2020
• The freedom songs that became the soundtrack for the movement were gospel hymns with altered lyrics that spoke to the power of protest.
  — Erica Armstrong Dunbar, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Polling suggests the altered behavior won’t change anytime soon.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2026
• These altered cells secreted proteins that were shown to reverse signs of aging in skin models.
  — New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
• Compounding pharmacies sell altered forms of drugs for patients to still have access to them.
  — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 19 Feb. 2026
• The Nine Network used the altered image as part of a graphic for its evening news bulletin.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• These changes are revealed in both cognitive tests and imaging scans showing the altered structure of the brain.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025