Sentence examples for becoming defective from inspiring English sources
C.W.D., like mad-cow disease, is caused by a misshapen protein that forces healthy proteins to fold in on themselves, becoming defective.
Dropped-ball: occurs when the referee has stopped play for any other reason, such as a serious injury to a player, interference by an external party, or a ball becoming defective.
Keep your squishies in small clear bags or sandwich bags to prevent them from becoming defective or dirty.
More than 460,000 are estimated to have passed through the island this year, their usually defective orange lifejackets becoming one of the iconic images of the refugee exodus to Europe, one now burned into the collective memory of the island of 90,000.
Screening to determine defective MMR status is becoming increasingly common, especially with a view to identify families with Lynch syndrome.
However, in later rounds the distribution of mutant cells changed with a clear enrichment within the prespore zone, suggesting that mutants defective in bias imposed by G− growth were becoming enriched.
Together, these results demonstrated that the Dnmt1 mutation affected progenitor cell cycle progression, and resulted in a defective cell cycle exit or faltered initial steps in becoming postmitotic neurons.
It has been proposed that MITEs are generated by a two-step process, in which a small number of particular class II defective elements are amplified by a still unknown replicative mechanism becoming the founder elements of new MITE families (Feschotte et al. 2002; Casacuberta and Santiago 2003).
An election in which both candidates are acknowledged to be lamentable and defective is as good a measure as any of a polity that's fast becoming ungovernable, and at the same time is a formula for worse things to come.
The Defective Detectives.
