How to Use malignant in a Sentence

malignant

adjective

• 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
• But many maintain that there is something malignant about the species.
  — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
• My once-a-day walk of the unit was a stroll through a malignant winter wonderland.
  — Leslie Gauthier, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• The man's heart, starved of oxygen, sped up into a malignant rhythm.
  — Melissa Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• These growths can in some instances progress to malignant cancer with time.
  — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• Testing revealed that the cause was a malignant brain tumor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Just as my half-dream predicted, the tests came back showing the mass was malignant.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• The mod gives them a receptor that lets them locate and attack malignant cells.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
• That study will assess why cells in those patients turned malignant.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 2 Feb. 2018
• The drugs unleash the patient’s own immune system to kill malignant cells.
  — Denise Grady, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Two weeks later, results of the biopsy came back and showed a malignant tumor.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2020
• But when the results came back, the news wasn't good; Lauren's was malignant.
  — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 25 June 2021
• Doctors found a malignant tumor near one of his vocal cords.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Now malignant tumors bloomed, appearing on more than half the mice.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The murder is a crime of passion, a malignant outgrowth of Dmitri’s desire.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• Doctors have a better chance of not leaving behind parts of a malignant tumor.
  — WSJ, 24 June 2018
• 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
• These tumors can pop up anywhere on the body, as either benign or malignant.
  — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Zen died at five months old in December from a malignant brain tumor.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 15 July 2022
• The real culprit was a malignant tumor in his left kidney that was pressing on nerves from his lower spine.
  — Paula Andalo, Kaiser Health News, 19 July 2017
• But by summer’s end, the malignant cells had attacked her throat, and finally her bones.
  — Janet Lee, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• The statistics spell out doom for anyone diagnosed with a malignant lump.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Researchers have not found any malignant cases of melasma.
  — Melanie Rud, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• Now the world’s rogue prison wardens and malignant actors of all stripes have every reason to increase their demands.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Dec. 2022
• Don’t let malicious and malignant actors sow strife among us.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
• But such malignant actors are not only at work in Scotland.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024