Sentence examples for it's defective from inspiring English sources

Recall Korsgaard's artifactual analogy: a chair is something you sit on, and so a chair is defective when you can't sit on it — and of course it's defective as a whole, because its job, as a whole chair, is to be a seat.

"Now it's defective," he announced.

Unless it's defective.

"We don't really understand fully yet why we need to go through all these stages, and why do we need to do it in the order that we do, but we know if it's defective, you're not getting as good quality sleep, and you feel that the next day".

This checkpoint requires TOP2A, ATR, WRN (Werner's syndrome helicase), and BRCA1; it is defective in cells with mutant BRCA1.

The car's owner, a Mr Chen, claimed it was defective, despite damage that looked suspiciously like the result of a head-on collision.

By contrast, there can be no sensible aspiration to change one's color vision through criticism and regulation, though one can conclude that it is defective and, hence, reserve judgment about certain colors based on one's experience.

The caveat to these data is that the rom2 ∆ mutant has more cell cell association defects than wsc1 ∆ and, unlike the sensor mutant, it is defective for invasive growth.

Matthew claimed it was defective.

Insofar as a conception of the good does not encompass these experiences, it is defective, even delusive".

So I took a yeast mutant that couldn't divide because it was defective in the controlling gene.