Sentence examples for would malfunction from inspiring English sources

The goal was to record an episode, or one of the times that Fish's heart would malfunction, speeding up at random times, with no way for Fish to calm himself.

The nightmare scenario for the U.S. military — however unlikely — would be that the weapon would malfunction, fall into unfriendly hands and be taken apart and studied by an unfriendly government or terrorist group.

It assumed that one-quarter of the missiles would malfunction, and that 12 missiles carrying 48 nuclear warheads would reach their targets in eight American cities in the middle of the night.

When we left him behind for a long Thanksgiving weekend at Big Sur, we spent the whole vacation worrying that his time-release food pellet would malfunction and he'd starve before we got home.

Many researchers have long believed that people are able to postpone their deaths when they face a major event like a family wedding, and perhaps the suspense of seeing whether computers would malfunction proved just too alluring, given the alternative of a funeral.

Initially, I didn't know what to do with myself having drank every night for years, slamming the brakes made me feel like the airbag would malfunction, beheading me.

Would malfunctioning, perhaps rather minor malfunctioning, of these cells be detected by standard toxicological methods?

Would malfunctioning of these cells affect the capacity of some people to resist respiratory infections?

Molly de Groh, Avery's mother, said she worried that Avery's new lead would also malfunction.

Alonzo had been given more money to stay an hour later, and the sensors on the alarm system had been tinkered with so that it wouldn't malfunction.

According to Millikan, the magnetosome would thereby malfunction.