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
• Your husband holds the key to the dysfunction and lack of respect in your household.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• On the other call, with a reporter, Repole tried to explain the dysfunction of horse racing.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Inflammation is the trigger for most of the dysfunction and disease in our bodies and in our skin.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
• The dysfunction has left area residents with a nagging fear: what happens when a big fire comes?
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• By the fall, the DeSantis operation was mired in a mess of dysfunction.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Their dynamic feels very familiar to me, the laughter and the dysfunction.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Still, Morris saw the draft post going live as proof of dysfunction at Insider during the strike.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• The Roys will be back too, for more deals, dysfunction, and drama, and the new season is supposed to pick up just after the big season 3 finale on the timeline.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 25 Mar. 2023
• But so much of the school board meeting dysfunction sweeping the country is as much a battle over symbols as substance.
  — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
• Miles was appointed by the state to address the academic decline and dysfunction in the district.
  — Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 21 July 2023
• No one seems to be solving San Francisco’s problems, the feeling goes, so by God, people are going to film the dysfunction and post the footage.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Is the Cuyahoga County Council about to bring its growing dysfunction into that sphere?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• Indigenous leaders say that the roots of the dysfunction in their communities run deep.
  — Yan Zhuang, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• Although the ultimate tragedy was public, the years of dysfunction leading up to it remained unknown.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• By the time Jordan was voted down, the dysfunction was embarrassing.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
• Their reactions to what the Roys say and do serve to deepen our understanding of the family’s many dysfunctions.
  — Chloe Walker, Longreads, 25 May 2023
• Not every infectious disease has been linked to this kind of lasting dysfunction, Jiang said.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• As dysfunction grips the House this year, most contentious votes must be passed outside of traditional rules and protocols.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• In fact, some measure of cognitive dysfunction was found in almost half of the sinusitis patients.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• Stridor is usually caused by blockages in the upper airways — from vocal-cord dysfunction or swollen tissues in the nose or throat.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• But after years of app dysfunction, any changes — no matter how messy and imperfect — feel like the potential beginnings of a fresh app spring.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The symptoms ranged in severity but included pain and ringing in the ears and cognitive dysfunction.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024