Sentence examples for malfunction I from inspiring English sources

If you're not letting a machine do what it's supposed to do, it can malfunction, i.e. I could get cancer.

How it might malfunction, I had no idea.

Then, due to technical malfunction, I couldn't unblock her for a week, which led to a month-long row.

"It is not unknown for a ship's engine to malfunction – I have been at sea several times when the main engine has stopped," says Stott. "This then becomes a situation with significant potential for danger to life and property and the engineering crew will be working very hard to get the engine re-started".

Fey did not plan her malfunction, I am sure – she hardly needs additional notoriety – but she used it to her advantage.

Nasdijj attributes to his F.A.S. "some rather severe learning disabilities... all my craziness, my inability to deal with authority, my perceptual malfunctions (I can read entire books upside down)... and my rage".

Every week when the device invariably malfunctions, I don't know which company to hate the most and each of these players love to pass the buck around to each other.

I shudder to think how many bikini wardrobe malfunctions I've endured.

I remember spending hours and hours scouring the garbled junk text our printer would spit out when it malfunctioned; I felt certain that somewhere in those hordes of symbols and fragments and numbers smashed together, there was a secret underneath, some kind of impossible text hidden from the rest of the world.

In performance I personally have had shoes and costumes malfunction onstage; I've also tripped and then slid 10 feet across the stage; I've forgotten the choreography, the music or scenery or stage parts stopped working and on and on and on!

Then I have to get my gear on, and there's some kind of equipment malfunction; either I have forgotten my skates, or most commonly, I'm putting on my skates and one of my laces breaks.