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Example sentences for "disfigurements"

Lexicographically close words:
disfavour; disfellowshiped; disfigure; disfigured; disfigurement; disfigures; disfiguring; disfranchise; disfranchised; disfranchisement
  1. As a matter of fact, however, not a little was done that was of great significance for the correction of disfigurements due to injury and unsightly congenital defects or scars after disease.

  2. While gunshot wounds were becoming so frequent as to claim much attention, wounds from swords and other sharp instruments causing ugly disfigurements were rather common.

  3. The object of these disfigurements is indicated by Bancroft (I.

  4. The tyranny of fashion in prescribing disfigurements and mutilations is not confined to savages.

  5. This use of skin disfigurements prevails among the lower races to the present day, and it is only one of many utilitarian and non-esthetic functions subserved by them.

  6. Similarly, various cruel disfigurements of wives by husbands or other wives, previously referred to as customary among savages, have their motive in the desire to mar the charms of a rival or a disobedient conjugal slave.

  7. After a good deal of anxious thought and discussion as to how the disfigurements could be temporarily obliterated some one suggested gold-beater skin, which was finally adopted and proved eminently successful.

  8. The whole street has been straightened out and brightened up, and many of the irregularities and disfigurements that were so marked a feature of it in the old days have been removed.

  9. This building, lately cleared from the disfigurements and partition of its profane use, forms one of the noblest round churches to be found; the so-called house of Juno at Zara is almost a rival of the so-called house of Jupiter at Spalato.

  10. Within, the church is a small but graceful basilica, which, notwithstanding some disfigurements in 1853 which are boastfully recorded, pretty well keeps its ancient character, its columns with their capitals of foliage.


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