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Example sentences for: malfunction

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

Another plane, flames inside, gone down-- Fundamentalist genius for terror, or just An apolitical mechanical malfunction, No one knows.
The only major computer foul-up in the U.S., the papers report, was the temporary malfunction of a Pentagon spy satellite.
The paper reminds that immediately after the loss (the pilot was rescued), the Pentagon suggested that the cause was mechanical malfunction.
Assuming the Lander didn't crash, the radio silence could be due to a misalignment of the antenna or a malfunction that caused the spacecraft to go to sleep.
The O-ring itself, Tufte makes clear, was not the only design element whose malfunction contributed to the Challenger tragedy.