How to Use deform in a Sentence

deform

verb

• The disease eventually causes the bones to deform.
• The disease eventually deforms the bones.
• His face was bruised, his arms and legs were deformed, and he had been burned.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• With the heat of recent fires, parts of that off-road beast are now melted and deformed.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
• Lightweight and ultra-durable, these frames won’t break or deform over time.
  — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Glaciers and ice sheets can be hundreds of feet to miles thick and all that pressure can deform the ice.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• If a wheel is deformed, another machine in the shop can grind it true.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• This showed exactly how the bars deform.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026
• And the ground began to deform, likely due to flows of magma.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2021
• This mesh helps keep the ball from deforming when kicked, which stops the ball from veering while in flight.
  — Mark McClusky, WIRED, 30 May 2002
• Solids can also be deformed if enough pressure is applied to them.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
• Once a metal damper deforms to save a building, the parts must be replaced.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
• Trump’s hands look deformed, and the person on the far left is missing a ring finger.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• In some cases, arthritis can even make the joints appear deformed.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• Bathed in sunlight, deformed by the wide angle shot, there was our living room.
  — Francesco Pacifico, The Dial, 12 May 2026
• And so the news that comes out of his administration is deformed as well.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
• Others worry that injecting pay can deform how and why the work is done in the first place.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
• The slush is dense enough to explain the delay but still flexible enough to deform.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
• Habermas was well aware of how the internet had deformed his beloved public sphere.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Icequakes can deform ice sheets and contribute to their flow toward the sea.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
• Flight attendants have also been asked not to open cans that appear deformed.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
• While their bodies can deform and bend, their hearts, the pumps that keep them moving, have remained bulky and rigid.
  — New Atlas, 12 June 2026
• And when stronger heat waves hit in the future, the roads will be more likely to deform and develop ruts.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2021
• In free fall, the sheet deforms into an upside-down bell when a weight is attached at its center.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
• When looking in the mirror, a patient’s own visage might seem deformed.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
• This often leaves a shell deformed, with air bubbles trapped underneath it.
  — Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2024
• They can be easily folded, twisted, deformed, or cut; some can be stretched; many are soft.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 May 2017
• After his first round of the treatment in 2021, he was left deformed.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 24 July 2025
• There is the sense of these two men, Cope and Marsh, and how their rivalry deforms them.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Feb. 2017
• There is the sense of these two men, Cope and Marsh, and how their rivalry deforms them.
  — Sam Kashner, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017