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Example sentences for: flaw

How can you use “flaw” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The main flaw here is that most educational-neglect cases are handled by the schools; reports are made to protective agencies only when all else fails.
Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw.
The flaw is best expressed when she refers to last week as "windfall week."
On the positive side, "Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). More often, though, critics call the book "didactic and highly simplistic" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). Judith Shulevitz finds a flaw at the center of Faludi's thesis: She "assumes something that's no longer true: that America is in the throes of downsizing and loss"; and her focus on the marginalized and downsized distorts her view: "she should have said she was talking about class; she claimed to be talking about gender" (the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to listen to an interview with Faludi.)
People pretty much expect to be taken care of no matter what is wrong with them, and once they get their "insurance" card the hemorrhoid sufferers generally will not defer to congestive heart failure, for example, so the Oregon plan has a fatal flaw; the most basic flaw of all--human nature.