How to Use malignant in a Sentence

malignant

adjective

• These, along with melanoma, make up the three malignant skin cancers.
  — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2025
• His story is not defined by a malignant mole a decade ago.
  — Zach Berman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• These growths can in some instances progress to malignant cancer with time.
  — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• That study will assess why cells in those patients turned malignant.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 2 Feb. 2018
• But many maintain that there is something malignant about the species.
  — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
• The man's heart, starved of oxygen, sped up into a malignant rhythm.
  — Melissa Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• Tom Foxx has a malignant neoplasm of the lower lobe in his lung.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• They are meant for a network of strangers and are built to be suspicious of malignant forces.
  — Quinn Norton, The Atlantic, 21 May 2018
• My once-a-day walk of the unit was a stroll through a malignant winter wonderland.
  — Leslie Gauthier, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• Just as my half-dream predicted, the tests came back showing the mass was malignant.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth.
  — Amanda Castro hannah Parry shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
• If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.
  — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
• The cells lining the milk ducts turn malignant (cancerous) but stay in place (in situ).
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• But when the results came back, the news wasn't good; Lauren's was malignant.
  — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 25 June 2021
• Now malignant tumors bloomed, appearing on more than half the mice.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant brain tumor.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 25 Mar. 2025
• These tumors can be benign or malignant.
  — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
• If a cluster of malignant cells is waging a war on your body, everything else is moot, right?
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
• Zen died at five months old in December from a malignant brain tumor.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 15 July 2022
• Two weeks later, results of the biopsy came back and showed a malignant tumor.
  — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 26 Nov. 2020
• But by summer’s end, the malignant cells had attacked her throat, and finally her bones.
  — Janet Lee, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Last month, my son reached two years in remission from a rare, malignant cancer that almost took his eye and his life.
  — Dayna Copeland, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025
• While most are harmless, some have the potential to become malignant over time.
  — Holly Burns, Time, 6 May 2026
• The drugs unleash the patient’s own immune system to kill malignant cells.
  — Denise Grady, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The system generates two scores, one for benign and one for malignant, each on a scale of zero to one.
  — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• This is where a malignant brain tumor, as yet undiagnosed, struck me down and left me thrashing on the ground.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• The malignant what’s-wrong with-Chucky narrative had begun to take root.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• Over time, these polyps can become cancerous (malignant) and spread to other areas of the body.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
• The murder is a crime of passion, a malignant outgrowth of Dmitri’s desire.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• If malignant cells are found, the standard treatment is to surgically remove all the lymph nodes in the same area.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 7 June 2017