Sentence examples for be a defect from inspiring English sources
A third possibility is that defective ploidy could be a defect common to the eliminated cells.
STUBBORNNESS is one of Álvaro Uribe's qualities but it can sometimes be a defect.
A generic multi-tissue PD-state phenotype appears to be a defect on mitochondrial bioenergetics.
In a classical concert, that would be a defect — but here, it may have been a deliberate choice by the composer and the singer.
In what may be a defect in original design, the steel lintels above the windows have rusted to such an extent that each will have to be replaced.
It is usually just a bad plug or broken insulation on the wiring, but it could be a defect inside the appliance.
Some entries are mystifying ("God is hidden. Poverty is obvious"), others awkward ("The cheeky green poplars wobble unrealistically"), although this second trait may be a defect of Clare Cavanagh's translation from the Polish.
The dysregulation of inflammatory cascade and central tolerance may be a defect in autoimmune diseases related to innate immunity leading to corresponding alteration in adaptive immune response.
About the time that the excavation reached the bottom of the engine house wall, water from the Delaware river rushed up into the middle of the excavation through the gravel bottom, its source being afterwards ascertained to be a defect in the forebay of the pumping station.
That's a defect in some respects.
