How to Use faulty in a Sentence

faulty

adjective
  • What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • In fact, the deficit reduction premise was faulty from the start.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Customers won’t be charged if the item is found to be faulty or the wrong item was shipped.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Or they were caught in house fires sparked by faulty wiring or use of a space heater.
    Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • It was built on assumptions that over the years have proved to be faulty.
    Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The third reason could be due to a faulty fan or motor.
    Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The fire was caused by a faulty space heater on the third floor, city officials said.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Jan. 2022
  • When parts fail, the most typical thing to look for are faulty brakes.
    Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The news spurred some brutal jokes and memes all aimed at faulty little Frank.
    Fortune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • What to Consider The spray bottle tips are known to clog or be faulty.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some had been left vacant and rotting, with faulty wiring and leaky roofs.
    Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Oftentimes, the absence of smoke alarms, or faulty ones, are to blame.
    Chloe Melas, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • Their work opened with a problem caused by a faulty ice maker in the basement.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2021
  • One of the main reasons is that the underground wiring is faulty and not buried in conduit.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
  • There were supposed to be three, but one of the quartz panes was faulty, so its opening had to be plugged with more steel.
    Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • The Meater+ Chefs and at-home cooks shouldn't have to rely on a faulty thermometer to tell them when their meat is done.
    Zoe Malin, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    David Koenig and Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    David Koenig, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In each case, a single faulty sensor triggered the nose-down pitch.
    Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But if the thesis is faulty, there is value in the exercise.
    Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
    Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The Trump team's faulty command of the facts has at times been painfully obvious.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 22 May 2025
  • What if, earlier in the day, someone sneaked in through that one window with the faulty latch, then hid in the basement?
    Talia Argondezzi, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The valve that went faulty during launch also did not come back online when the crew test-fired the spacecraft's thrusters.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • The state Republican Party sued and the state Supreme Court found the advice was faulty.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Carter used social media to share the design process, how the brand came up with colorways and names, and even struggles like shipping delays and faulty products.
    Sarah Boyd, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025

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