Sentence examples for defect like from inspiring English sources

It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate".

The orchestra had been hoping to defect (like old-time Soviet artists trying to flee their oppressive homeland) by 2006, but why wait three interminable winters?

Under Local Law 11, a minor defect like that hairline crack has to be listed in a category called Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program, known by the acronym Swarmp (pronounced the way you would expect).

No other state has barred abortions because of evidence that a fetus has a genetic defect like Down syndrome, which rises in incidence with maternal age, leading many pregnant women to seek tests for the disorder.

In her books and for her lectures, she is finding examples of ways in which evil is dressed up with a tuxedo and a top hat, while goodness "lurks backstage and bites its tongue", offered with an apology or a defect, like Herman Melville's Billy Budd, who can only stutter, or JM Coetzee's Michael K, who has a cleft lip.

It's possible to be unaware of many things about oneself (for example, to take the case at hand, the fact that one is a genius), but it's hard to imagine how this could extend to an obvious physical defect like lameness.

These defect-like structures are interpreted in terms of a phenomenological model previously proposed by other authors.

In some specimens, defect-like feature was observed at the crack origins, which shortened the fatigue lives.

We assign the D mode appearance in Raman spectra to defect-like features, which induce distortions in the electronic density of HOPG after electron irradiation.

Since silver preferentially populates edge, corner and other defect-like sites, the weakly bound β was correlated with low coordinated metal atoms.

This effect may be due to preferential population of defect-like edge and corner Ru sites by Cu, subsequently limiting the amount of the weakly bound hydrogen on the metal surfaces necessary for ethene hydrogenation.