How to Use mutant in a Sentence

mutant

adjective

• The mutant virus had long since gained a foothold and spread widely.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
• That’s when Feige also said that mutant projects are in the works.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Sep. 2021
• What’s the best comp for a mansion for a gang of mutant crime fighters?
  — Adam Bonislawski, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• Only, the mutant pill bugs who call the place home aren’t going to eat him.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
• Weird mutant mice, called scurfy mice, had grabbed their attention.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2025
• Mutant genes resistant to the drive will thus be unable to spread.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• Sounds like just the spot for stashing a crew of mutant superheroes.
  — Adam Bonislawski, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• Cumming starred as the mutant Nightcrawler in the comic book movie.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 June 2024
• So over the course of time, just one mutant cell could come to dominate in a batch of cultured cells.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Does a mutant version of the virus pose a much deeper level of trouble?
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2020
• Does a mutant version of the virus pose a much deeper level of trouble?
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
• The mutant form got into the cells at a rate that was nine times higher than the ancestral form.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 June 2020
• As a final test, the researchers tried it on a mutant ataxia protein.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
• The embryo used the healthy gene from the female donor as a blueprint to correct the mutant gene.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• As of now, the Inhumans have served as our mutant stand-ins and that hasn't gone very well so far.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2017
• As of now, the Inhumans have served as our mutant stand-ins and that hasn't gone very well so far.
  — Justin L. MacK, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• Somehow, that worked out to embedding a mutant third hand in his shoulder.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
• But a prime suspect (from the comic books, at least) could be the mutant Mojo.
  — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 29 Mar. 2017
• The shapeshifter once saved Nightcrawler from a mutant fight club in Apocalypse.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 June 2019
• When the researchers placed their bare hands on top of the mutant mosquitoes’ cages, the insects still flocked upward for a taste.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• So why focus on these genes and not do gene editing of mutant forms of other genes that directly cause diseases?
  — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 24 June 2026
• The aisles had once swarmed with people, mutant under-dwellers who emerged from the depths of Penn Station.
  — John Bailey Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• But much of Europe is seeing another surge, driven in large part by the mutant strains of the virus.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
• In the comics, Namor is the mutant son of a human explorer and an Atlantean princess.
  — Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
• Variants of the mutant strain had a set of 21 mutations not seen in other strains in Brazil.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 2 Mar. 2021
• However, in the final scene, the mutant baby returns to kill off half of them in a brutal sequence.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
• Of all the mutant Covid strains floating around, Gottlieb said only one seems to be gaining strength.
  — Michael Riley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2021
• As a mutant himself, Namor feels compelled to join the X-Men against the Avengers.
  — Joe George, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
• Here’s to mutant rats in the basement and Mexican myths; here’s to the strange and to Stephen King.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2018
• New York was hit by the original virus around March 15, but within days the mutant strain took over.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2020