How to Use dysfunction in a Sentence

dysfunction

noun

• The disease causes gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
• Good for you, by the way; tough to do amid dysfunction.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• But … the poor start — the early dysfunction — crushed them.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 June 2021
• This means the joint moves too much, which is a common cause of dysfunction.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• But the story detectable through the fog is one of a job market still in the throes of dysfunction.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Your husband holds the key to the dysfunction and lack of respect in your household.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The dysfunction in this town is very, very widely known.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
• This may not even look like dysfunction on the surface.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
• Horror movies help some of us process all that dysfunction and worst-ness.
  — Sean Abley, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
• Some of what’s been told about the dysfunction of the program around that time is true, and some is embellished.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2021
• His play with the Jets has not been ideal, and the rumors of dysfunction might be too much to overlook.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
• On top of all the chaos and dysfunction, more and more members of Congress are heading for the exits.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• There was too much at stake, too much to do, too much to fix, and too much division to the degree of great dysfunction.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2023
• For the second time in a week, the House also canceled votes on two funding bills that lacked the support to pass, adding to the dysfunction.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
• What does Boston Rob make of all that Traitors dysfunction?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
• And who among us can’t relate to some version of parental dysfunction?
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
• Auburn eats itself from the inside out, and now players don’t have to put up with that dysfunction.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Dec. 2021
• The human brain is the most complex organ on the planet, and the signs of its dysfunction are manifold.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
• Downey was set to play a cop obsessed with bringing the killer to justice in this sendup of Beltway dysfunction.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
• That doesn’t mean your team can’t be better or that it isn’t held back by all-too-common forms of dysfunction.
  — Scott Brown, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• This sort of dysfunction is worse than a divorce for your children.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• The big challenge now will be whether the Packers can manage the dysfunction for long enough to make one more Super Bowl run.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
• But years of dysfunction and estrangement have left them all adrift.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
• After all the chaos and dysfunction, the British people deserve a say over who governs the country.
  — Laura Beers, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
• These five days of deceit and dysfunction don’t stand alone and won’t end with this argument.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
• The dreams shared in 2018 are gone, instead replaced by pessimism and dysfunction.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• Not just hospitals The dysfunction runs across the whole health ecosystem.
  — Nick Thomas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
• But the power of pork may not be enough to restore decorum to the halls of power, let alone rid it of the dysfunction that flourishes there.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 May 2021
• But strife and dysfunction, long bearable parts of life there, have driven the city to paralysis.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Our response as citizens cannot mirror the dysfunction at the top.
  — Nick Allardice, Time, 10 July 2025