Example sentences for: misshapen

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

  • Its normal function is uncertain, but when it misfolds into an abnormal or “infectious” form, it causes the microscopic holes and globs of toxic, misshapen protein found in the brains of TSE victims.

  • Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau . In this 1896 novel, a vivisectionist attempts to transform animals into men until the misshapen creatures revert and kill him, the forces of nature overcoming man's civilizing artifices.

  • The famous Cornish pasties provide the saying, As long as Jan Bedella's fiddle if a new young cook makes a misshapen pasty.

  • People think I'm kidding when I say that my favorite film is The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but I can't imagine how I'd have survived an especially grisly puberty without the comfort of watching Boris Karloff express his anguish to an uncomprehending world through a misshapen body and halting language.

  • The Washington Post entreats Clinton to stand firm, warning readers not to believe in "an accounting mirage to finance a misshapen tax cut that the country can't afford."


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