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Example sentences for "disfigured"

Lexicographically close words:
disesteem; disfavor; disfavour; disfellowshiped; disfigure; disfigurement; disfigurements; disfigures; disfiguring; disfranchise
  1. At last one black pool of blood disfigured everything, and wherever the eye turned, it could see nothing but piled-up heaps of dead, and lifeless corpses trampled on without mercy.

  2. Again, grown-up virgins and chaste matrons were dragged along with countenances disfigured by bitter weeping, wishing to avoid the violation of their modesty by any death however agonizing.

  3. In English novels, with their insipid sweetness that always reminds me of the smell of frost-bitten potatoes, the heroine sometimes permits herself the luxury of being blind, lame, or disfigured by smallpox.

  4. Sell them for the benefit of struggling artists; in that way, they will serve some good purpose, and I shall not run the risk of being disfigured by my successor.

  5. The scar which disfigured me in other eyes had been, as I thought, no detriment in his.

  6. He was dressed in black, and looked decent, almost trim, but his air was that of one uncertain of himself, and his face was disfigured by an ingratiating leer which Etheridge found almost intolerable.

  7. Colonel Williams died of apoplexy, and his wife, disfigured and tortured by a frightful hurt in the face, would fain have rejoined her husband.

  8. The larger of the two was disfigured by the traces of the small-pox.

  9. Like the Jarvis above mentioned, he was disfigured by a red right hand, having shot his man in a duel fought in the autumn of 1808 behind the United States fort on the opposite bank of the river.

  10. Still I was touched to observe that he kept his disfigured face averted as much as possible.

  11. At last she was all right in regard o' health, but she was disfigured for life; she had to wear a crape veil down to her mouth.

  12. The struggle must have been horrible: the mound was covered with hacked and disfigured bodies; blood had flowed so abundantly that the dust seemed like a large red carpet.

  13. This antique piece of property was not less than fifty years old; but not a spot, not a grain of dust had disfigured it; Julie was in ecstasies over it.

  14. I knew it must be done, and that the sooner I attempted it the safer would be the trial; so at last, with set teeth and almost superhuman effort, I crept up the beach among the silent, disfigured dead once more.

  15. He fixed his eyes upon the younger Indian who had already attracted my attention by the manliness of his face as well as the yellow stripes that disfigured him.

  16. The questions she had asked from my oracle related to affairs connected with her heart, and she wished likewise to know how she could get rid of the blotches which disfigured her.

  17. His accounts of Mangi and Kathay, or southern and northern China, are most inaccurately stolen from Marco Polo, and disguised or rather disfigured to conceal the theft.

  18. It was disfigured by a number of longitudinal ruts, a quarter of an inch deep, the cavities of which seemed clogged with ancient dirt.

  19. His forehead was not disfigured by any organs.

  20. His forehead, however, was disfigured by what looked like a haphazard assortment of eyes, eight in number, of different sizes and shapes.

  21. His face, which was not disfigured by any special organs, was pale, earnest, and grave, yet somehow remarkably pleasing.

  22. In the dark mirror a terribly disfigured face confronted him.

  23. If, for instance, Lida had been disfigured by small-pox, perhaps you might have worked yourself up to such a deed of heroism.

  24. He completed the Louvre, and demolished the straggling, hideous buildings which disfigured the Carrousel in Louis Philippe's time.

  25. His forehead was narrow, his hair cropped close, one corner of his mouth was disfigured by a scar, his smile was insolent, and so was his whole bearing.

  26. His face, which was disfigured by recent scars, had an expression of cunning and impudence.

  27. Blood matted his black hair and stained one dark cheek which was disfigured by a great scar.

  28. The other was disfigured by a broken and crooked nose.

  29. He perceived that his skin, which had been so lately disfigured by foul blotches and frightful scales, so as to render him an object of abhorrance to his nearest and dearest friends, was now smooth, fair, and clear.

  30. He knew that she had intentionally disfigured herself; that she had offered up her beauty to her love!

  31. Ernestine knelt weeping by the bed of the princess, and implored her to say what frightful accident had so disfigured her.

  32. The lovely porcelain surfaces of both terraces are disfigured by names scribbled in pencil underneath the water.

  33. The Dewan-i-Khas, or Hall of Private Audience, is at present disfigured by trusses of hay wrapped round the inlaid pillars, whilst the work of reparation is being carried on.

  34. The children suffer dreadfully from prickly heat, but indeed all children in Queensland are more or less disfigured by this rash.

  35. The beauty of its palaces and tombs are destroyed by the coloured lamps and glass chandeliers hung there for use during the Festival, whilst gateways and archways are disfigured by the masses of nails left after the illuminations.

  36. He therefore ventured in a middle way, as he himself in one of his letters expresses it, without affectation of words, and endeavouring to leave them not disfigured in the sense.

  37. The graces breathe in such of Waller's works as are wrote in a tender strain; but then they are languid thro' negligence, and often disfigured with false thoughts.

  38. Shirley had unfortunately a large mole upon his left cheek, which much disfigured him, and gave him a very forbidding appearance.

  39. No hat disfigured the coiled and braided masses of coppery hair that circled her shapely head.

  40. His voice and words left no doubt, and yet there was nothing in that face, disfigured by agony and a horrible wound, to recall him whom they saw last in all the fulness of strength and the pride of youth.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disfigured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.