How to Use dysfunction in a Sentence

dysfunction

noun

• The disease causes gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
• Pelvic floor dysfunction can take a toll on your mental health.
  — Jordan Smith, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
• This means the joint moves too much, which is a common cause of dysfunction.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Horror movies help some of us process all that dysfunction and worst-ness.
  — Sean Abley, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
• But elections are not a blank check for dysfunction.
  — Jodi Balma, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
• But there’s no doubting the dysfunction that comes with the streak.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
• Injuries piled up, dysfunction crept in and winnable games slipped away.
  — Law Murray, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• People with this dysfunction don't have those breaks.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
• This sort of dysfunction is worse than a divorce for your children.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• That’s the most harmful dysfunction right now.
  — Kevin J. Morrison, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• And who among us can’t relate to some version of parental dysfunction?
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
• Georgie and Mandy's adorable dysfunction.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
• But years of dysfunction and estrangement have left them all adrift.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
• The sense of dysfunction soon spilled into public view.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
• Your husband holds the key to the dysfunction and lack of respect in your household.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The legislation had been held up by months of dysfunction and bad faith.
  — Andrew Taylor, ajc, 21 Dec. 2020
• The dysfunction in drug pricing is no secret.
  — Rita Numerof, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• 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
• But sometimes family dysfunction can get in the way of those goals.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 15 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Auburn eats itself from the inside out, and now players don’t have to put up with that dysfunction.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 14 Dec. 2021
• Everyone ends up paying too high a price for the dysfunction.
  — Terina Allen, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• Those events caused a stir, and the district’s dysfunction has remained in the spotlight since.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• Since this alliance took shape, dysfunction has grown, trust has eroded, and outrage has spread.
  — Wanda James, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026
• 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
• The dysfunction can’t be denied.
  — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• Helping is being there for someone in a way that does not support the dysfunction.
  — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
• Helping is being there for someone in a way that does not support the dysfunction.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2021
• But the proteome is where much of this dysfunction manifests and where it can be measured.
  — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• 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