Get to know Misshapen better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like deformed or distorted.
Misshapen in a sentence
Misshapen meaning
- Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
- Morally or intellectually warped.
Using Misshapen
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen. | Morally or intellectually warped.
- Useful related words include: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed.
- In the example corpus, misshapen often appears in combinations such as: misshapen and, and misshapen, like misshapen.
Context around Misshapen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Misshapen
- In this selection, "misshapen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, become, worlds, cause, tubers, game and radishes stand out and add context to how "misshapen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a slightly misshapen regular pancake and and become misshapen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "misshapen" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with misshapen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Byron was born with a misshapen right foot. (8 words)
Calcium deficiency can cause misshapen fruit and aborted buds. (9 words)
Misshapen fruits and vegetables and the farmers who love them. (10 words)
Sandra consults with doctors Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif on to see whether it's possible to fix her misshapen breasts - and breaks down in tears when she's informed the procedure is 'very risky'. (35 words)
That involved using gene therapy to block a protein, TGF-beta, termed a “master switch” in the process by which heart valves scar, thicken, and become misshapen, the same process that afflicts the dogs. (34 words)
Sadly, Gwen suffered rickets as a toddler, and the disease left her legs so badly misshapen that she spent her early years in orthopedic boots and leg braces. (28 words)
Game-changing effects: Power-ups and surreal effects change the game of golf in major ways, from warped gravity to misshapen balls and ball collision! (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
If the plants are misshapen or overgrown, you may want to prune them more aggressively now to correct their structure and sacrifice flowers for summer.
In Clearwater Russet, smoke exposure reduced the yield of potatoes greater than 6 ounces by 12%, with no change in the percentage of misshapen tubers.
It has a misshapen game cartridge that contains a battery-powered “rumble” feature to add some haptic feedback.
The harvest was hardly bountiful — a few skinny scallions, some misshapen radishes, half-ripe cherry tomatoes and stumpy curly kale.
This year, the movement is focusing on upcycling food, like misshapen produce or offcuts of meat, as a way to prevent food waste.
But these worlds, misshapen in the weirdest ways, offer clues to understanding how the fundamental force of nature and gravity works to shape our solar system.
Calcium deficiency can cause misshapen fruit and aborted buds.
Game-changing effects: Power-ups and surreal effects change the game of golf in major ways, from warped gravity to misshapen balls and ball collision!
It's not a pretty sight, causing nails to thicken, darken and become misshapen.
I’ve cycled through the Dublin streets to meet him and my hair is woefully misshapen from the helmet.
The result wasn't terrible, but it didn't rise and essentially resembled a slightly misshapen regular pancake.
He had an encephalocele which covered a third of his face, but his skull was complete - only misshapen.
Lebanese chickpeas are considered too small and misshapen for anything but animal feed.
Sandra consults with doctors Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif on to see whether it's possible to fix her misshapen breasts - and breaks down in tears when she's informed the procedure is 'very risky'.
Byron was born with a misshapen right foot.
Misshapen fruits and vegetables and the farmers who love them.
Sadly, Gwen suffered rickets as a toddler, and the disease left her legs so badly misshapen that she spent her early years in orthopedic boots and leg braces.
That involved using gene therapy to block a protein, TGF-beta, termed a “master switch” in the process by which heart valves scar, thicken, and become misshapen, the same process that afflicts the dogs.
When lightning hits the ground it fuses dirt and clay into silica, the result of which is a rock called a fulgurite, which looks like a misshapen tube.
Farmers may benefit by getting money for produce such as misshapen carrots, which are often chucked away.
Common combinations with misshapen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: