How To Use Misshapen In A Sentence

The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places.
The site for the Loft, a 77 unit condominium development, is a right-angled triangle with both acute angles cut off so it is more a misshapen pentagon.
The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
Enter the UglyRipe, a lumpen, misshapen, odd duck of a tomato grown near Naples, Florida.
If you nibble enough, your nail bed becomes misshapen over time, so you get ridges and bumps and all sorts of other unpleasant side effects. Times, Sunday Times

She was still dressed in the clothes from last ni, ht, wrinkled and misshapen - skirt, dress, nylons, sweater and all. FAMILY BLESSINGS
These pack-houses have machines which grade for size and conveyor lines where people pick out misshapen and damaged produce.
Until I was 30, my relationship with Antarctica was confined to the biannual reinflation of the globe hanging above my desk, its air valve located in the middle of the misshapen white pancake at the bottom. Terra Incognita
In most cases the skull is abnormally small or misshapen, particularly at the back, according to the Mayo Clinic Web site, one of the sources White consulted. Woman's crushing headache took years to diagnose
Blooms were misshapen, small and nothing like the incurving form I had expected.
Check it out in another 20 years and the likelihood is that it will be misshapen and deformed.
A baby's sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational ... THE MEDICAL NEWS
The clinical features include misshapen skull caused by coronal suture synostosis, wide-set eyes, midface hypoplasia, choanal stenosis, and shallow orbits.
The misshapen, swollen fingers are welded together and his nails look like claws. Times, Sunday Times
The eggs are misshapen, rough-shelled, and contain watery albumen.
There will always be some vegetables that are misshapen or too big or too small. The Sun
In line with the motive to instruct, there are diseased organs, a liver shrivelled from alcohol abuse, lungs disfigured by cigarette tar, the misshapen brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
Posted on: Thursday, 19 November 2009, 14: 55 CST A baby's sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational plagiocephaly - or the WN.com - Articles related to Fat chance for kids who are losing sleep
At night, lying awake in a room never dark enough, I dream of bare walls; the virgin walls of a big white misshapen room.
I actually prefer it if it's a bit misshapen - rustic charm and all that. Times, Sunday Times
By a curious paradox, however, it often happens that the headache due to eye-strain is caused not by the grosser defects, such as interfere with vision so seriously as absolutely to demand the wearing of glasses to see decently, but from slighter and more irregular degrees and kinds of misshapenness in the eye, most of which fall under the well-known heading of astigmatism. Preventable Diseases
Stone, terra cotta and metal images of royal figures—and some misshapen commoners—populate "Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria," a look at the Yoruba city-state of Ife from the 12th to 15th centuries. Don't Miss
The loom-rooms seem tenanted by huge, misshapen denizens of some preadamic world. Floyd Grandon's Honor
Both are huge, to match my misshapen face I suppose.
You will undoubtedly discover that spiky misshapen globes, with occasional squidgy and sticky bits, are not the easiest things to hold for a long time.
But can a misshapen, double-dealing, prince-murdering, widow-wooing king ever be more than a mere shadow of evil - compared to an aspiring musical theatre lead?
As far as the eye could range forward were columns of steam in the air, misshapen lumps of lime, mist-like preadamite monsters, still pools of turquoise-blue stretches of blue corn-flowers, a river that coiled on itself twenty times, pointed bowlders of strange colors, and ridges of glaring, staring white. American Notes
The casing will survive a fair amount of pressure, but overeagerness may result in misshapen or even ruptured links. Stefan Beck: What Deaner Was Talkin' About: Sausage King, R.I.P.
I will probably use this for a box top, though it's a little misshapen for that.
misshapen old fingers
In amazement, Ms. K looks at the misshapen creatures surrounded by tufts of shaggy hair.
If you are lucky enough to find her house, and then a parking space on the narrow road, you will be greeted by a thicket of untended bushes and misshapen trees that obscure the entrance to the path that winds around the house to her studio.
Signs of a sick tree include a premature change in leaf color, misshapen leaves, thinness of the canopy and early loss of leaves.
Not only is it totally misshapen for meat, pretty much an amorphous blob, taking on a slight tear-drop shape, but it's also connected up to an array of tubes, each slowly pumping various fluids into it.
The model was a little misshapen, the face furred with fluff from her pocket, but it was still intact.
My ability to string words into a necklace of meaning is hobbled by a shaky, tortured, and misshapen syntax…
So far, it looked a lot like a misshapen, lumpy potholder. A Stitch Before Dying
The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal's leg in a paddock. North America — Volume 1
What little hair remained on its head was ragged and clumped, and the nose was bent and misshapen.
Virtually unrecognisable, her porcelain skin was made blotchy, her face puffy, her teeth misshapen and her lithesome figure bulged for the role in the small film that she produced and turned into a major hit.
Frogs found in the vicinity of the refuge's oil fields had missing or misshapen hind legs and feet, and missing eyes.
Badly misshapen, damaged or sick trees and shrub planting must go. Times, Sunday Times
Frogfishes are a family of fishes that look like misshapen toads - hence the name frogfishes.
When I fished the misshapen pellet pictured above out of the sink I realized Hevi Shot is the most significant invention in shotgunning of the past 10 years. Why Hevi Shot Is The Most Important Shotgunning Invention of the Decade
It was an area of open heathland broken up by small clumps of trees, many misshapen and stunted by the constant attentions of wandering ponies.
Behind them, upon the stern, was perched a hideous and beardless African, gorgeously arrayed in a dark tunic heavily laced with gold, a richly chased and adorned scimiter at his side, and a red fez jauntily set on one side of his misshapen head. Paul Patoff
Her timbers are swollen and misshapen; repeated doses of chemicals are being applied to stave off the encroaching rot.
Translated from the greek Amorphophallus titanum means "giant misshapen penis," and while the Rafflesia has the world's largest flower, the titan lays claim to the largest unbranched cluster of flowers in the world. Boing Boing
Indeed, his city farm is bursting with beautiful gardeners bearing baskets of misshapen vegetables. Times, Sunday Times
Promptly recycle any containers that are scratched, stained, or misshapen.
Indeed, his city farm is bursting with beautiful gardeners bearing baskets of misshapen vegetables. Times, Sunday Times
There will always be some vegetables that are misshapen or too big or too small. The Sun
The first guard had just begun to get up, when his large gun picked itself up, swinging through the air to collide with the back of a third guard's misshapen head, knocking him senseless.
She was still dressed in the clothes from last ni, ht, wrinkled and misshapen - skirt, dress, nylons, sweater and all. FAMILY BLESSINGS
Those that survive to become tadpoles often have misshapen mouths and are unable to feed properly.
She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick.
It is a sad and embarrassing moment as the valuable and custom-cut marble stands misshapen.
But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed Ulysses
These are ugly, misshapen monsters. The Sun
As a result the nose can bleed or, with regular use, become permanently misshapen. The Sun
He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high. Youthful Bible Commentators
Common reading programs are, in their inception, an attempt to make up for some of the misshapenness of American secondary education -- especially its lack of consistent focus from school to school on books that define our cultural heritage and its failure to insist on high standards. Are Colleges' Summer Reading Lists TOO Left-Leaning? Report Says Yes
Similar to other fractures, the sooner the broken part is ‘set,’ the less likely permanent damage and misshapenness will result.
Rusty paint cans and twisted pieces of metal crunched underfoot as I carefully ran the rope over top of the junk and around the side of a huge misshapen refrigerator.
Women are reported to have liposuction to slim down tubby toes, or unsightly misshapen bones whittled smooth by laser.
It did not separate under the axe into misshapen pieces, with faces of every possible variation from regularity, that is, with what is called vitreous fracture, but rather separated into a number of nuts of limpid ice, each being of a prismatic form, and of much regularity in shape and size. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
The dreams are of a multiheaded dragon, snarling and trying to escape its misshapen, greenish egg. Father Swarat
Translated from the greek Amorphophallus titanum means "giant misshapen penis," and while the Rafflesia has the world's largest flower, the titan lays claim to the largest unbranched cluster of flowers in the world. Boing Boing
Like, when one of the characters extolls Beowulf's deeds and says how his story will live on forever, and you think, yeah, until a millenia and a bit later when it'll get dug up, rewired into a monstrously misshapen thing, painted in gauche muticolour, and made to dance like a monkey-puppet in a Follywood Spectacular. I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn!
And the rest of the lads lark about and laugh at a misshapen nude.
Here I am, about to turn 30, and I've sacrificed everything, only to be shanghaied by the bi-curious machinations of a cabal of doughy, misshapen teens. Glee's Sue Sylvester: A Timeline of Tyranny
Before you can say Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome, our poor little unsuspecting tweeny is metamorphasizing into a pint-sized version of the aforementioned witch-hag, complete with misshapen moles and receding hairline. Demon Witch Child (1975)
The misshapen toes visible in the open vinyl sandals were tipped with vermilion to match her fingernails. THE SERPENT'S MARK
This misshapenness causes rays of light to bend too much as they enter the eye and therefore intersect (become focused) short of reaching the retina.
She thinks her own legs are small, bandy, nearly misshapen.
The fruits are misshapen and unnatural looking, a kind of elephantine mutation of, say, cherries.
The bow was unstrung and secured to the tree, next to a large misshapen sack.
Lifting up her hand, she points to the misshapen fingers and peeling skin.
Fibroblasts cells expressing high amounts of NEFH were strongly misshapen, multinucleated, and had many inclusions, typical changes seen in neuropathies PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered.
Pots, pans, and other household goods dangled from hempen and wire leaders like misshapen fruit. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
His nose was a little misshapen and he winced as he moved his jaw.
Still, the wind snapped one of my tent's poles and it's oddly misshapen at first light.
His face was grotesque, but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast.
However, nothing is more frustrating after so much effort than seeing misshapen or rotten fruits on the vines.
You that came to my aid with a good sword and a better courage -- unless that ye recoil from my misshapenness -- come to my heart. The Black Arrow
It made such a roll of paper that the goldfinch's nest looked as though it were distent with a sort of misshapen ostrich egg. Aftermath
Severe arthritis has left his joints swollen and misshapen.
We recommend that you avoid excessively cleaning your sweater, since that might lead to misshapenness and the breaking down of some materials.
GUPTA: It's called deformational plagiocephaly, a fancy term for a misshapen head, usually caused by infants 'heads resting on the same spot. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2005
The misshapen, swollen fingers are welded together and his nails look like claws. Times, Sunday Times
If you nibble enough, your nail bed becomes misshapen over time, so you get ridges and bumps and all sorts of other unpleasant side effects. Times, Sunday Times
The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth.
She still has a little misshapenness but now that she has hair you can hardly notice.
This misshapen ogrelike brute has taut flesh with a claylike texture.
The comet, tailless and misshapen, appeared as expected in 1839 and 1846, before vanishing, confounding astronomers who waited patiently in 1852, 1859 and 1866.
I sat down for a while, looking out at the invisible ocean until my eyes grew accustomed to the dark and then together we picked our way back across the crooked, misshapen rocks towards the beach.
The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal’s leg in a paddock. North America
I actually prefer it if it's a bit misshapen - rustic charm and all that. Times, Sunday Times
One will no longer seek to reply to them nor to silence their din, but rather to find the reason of their misshapenness, their lameness, their sightless eyes, their long ears.
I ate that one, washed down with a squirt of not very runny honey squeezed at pains from a severely misshapen bottle - the result of an attempt to free up the flow by putting it in the microwave a few months back.
The syndrome, which leads to a deformed or misshapen head, is caused when a baby's head is in contact with a firm surface for lengthy periods.
The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark.
The other woman, Sufi, was small and somewhat misshapen, thick through the trunk, her back hunched.
Somewhat reminiscent of Vernor Vinge's novella "The Cookie Monster", this particularly steamy slice of corporate Gormenghast for the economy-plagued America provides plenty of emotional harakiri and gut-spilling visual thrills ... it crawls around the astonished reader like a misshapen beetle (complete with the grotesque patterns on its carapace and clockwork-sounding clicks). The Surreal Office
In fact, scientists now think that misshapen proteins could be the key to a host of illnesses, from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to cataracts and diabetes.
Also in the glass case was a small laptop computer, destroyed, misshapen but still recognisable.
For the first time she saw that he was no longer ugly or misshapen or grotesque, but very beautiful.
He had stared into the misshapen shadows of deep night with superstitious wakefulness, and by the time the darkness lifted, he could feel the liquid weight of the infection in his lungs.
But where the Magician was grumpy, these were evil; there was incredible malignance in their misshapen faces. Falcon Street
Buddha said : each heart is lonely and misshapen when they are born.
He may ken mair o't, either by villains on earth, or devils below --- I'll hae it frae him, if I should cut it out o 'his misshapen bouk wi' my whinger. ' The Black Dwarf
The misshapen toes visible in the open vinyl sandals were tipped with vermilion to match her fingernails. THE SERPENT'S MARK
People are being murdered around the country, and the only suspect is a misshapen, sourceless shadow. Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars
She thinks her own legs are small, bandy, nearly misshapen.
One of the coins was in a wonderfully good state of preservation, while the other was battered and misshapen.
As a result the nose can bleed or, with regular use, become permanently misshapen. The Sun
Friend (my Exalted Father-in-law) hath not related unto him the story of his son's misshapen members, August Father give of promise unto Dr. Ewing that if she can to make arrangements of honorableness with Exalted Seven Maids of Far Cathay
At a kind of easel at the farther end of the hall, a dwarf, misshapen in limbs, but of a face singularly acute and intelligent, was employed in the outline of that famous action at Val des Dunes, which had been the scene of one of the most brilliant of William's feats in arms -- an outline intended to be transferred to the notable "stitchwork" of Matilda the Duchess. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09
Because it is misshapen, the protein is destroyed by the cell's housekeeping machinery and never gets to its intended location in the cell membrane.
a little oldish misshapen stooping woman
Some of the autistic children born to mothers who took thalidomide also had misshapen ears, as well as abnormalities in the nerves of the head and face.
We value certain buildings for their ability to rebalance our misshapen natures and encourage emotions which our predominant commitments force us to sacrifice. Christianity Today
At the same time, we also confirmed that his spinal canal is becoming ever-narrower, given that his congenitally misshapen vertebrae called hemivertebrae or "butterflied" vertebrae are crowding the delicate nerve bundles that make up the spinal cord. Vet views: Expenses of pet health -- how far do you go?
The cittern appeared to Lycaelon's eyes like some sort of giant, misshapen lute-flat on both sides, its sound box pulled into a sort of peculiar sand-glass shape. Tran Siberian
The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
A kaleidoscope of bizarre images and misshapen faces danced before him.
Later, she would pick up the misshapen bullet from the floor.
Badly misshapen, damaged or sick trees and shrub planting must go. Times, Sunday Times
All we had to sell were some misshapen muffins and half-baked brownies.
African oasis some surviving mammoth, some belated megatherium, or some gigantic and misshapen liassic saurian. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
For though Jeanne of France is short and misshapen, she has true stature, and a clever mind. THE FAMILY

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