Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "misshapen"

Lexicographically close words:
missed; missel; missent; misses; misseth; missi; missile; missiles; missing; missio
  1. In silhouette it appeared no normal animal but some weird monstrosity, a misshapen body covered everywhere with odd wart-like excrescences.

  2. Some trader or trapper down in the forest might look up and behold the misshapen figure black and bold, against the sky.

  3. Venting on his brother his anger at the woman's intervention, Garth swung his misshapen body around the end of the table and thrust an elbow violently against Pete's chest.

  4. Better to track the goal of Trinacrian Pachynus, lingering and wheeling round through long spaces, than once catch sight of misshapen Scylla deep in her dreary cavern, and of the rocks that ring to her sea-coloured hounds.

  5. Straightway the doors are torn open and the dark house laid plain; the stolen oxen and forsworn plunder are shewn forth to heaven, and the misshapen carcase dragged forward by the feet.

  6. Then Bokwewa, finding himself no longer misshapen and awkward, but strong and straight, followed her into the lodge.

  7. The monks often fancied that they saw the misshapen forms of demons, and heard their diabolical whispers.

  8. From the level of the street, the four principal churches of the town stood out starkly, even while their misshapen spires were kindly hidden in the low, driving storm.

  9. On that lower, deformed, undershot jaw of Swen Brodie were those monstrous teeth which were his pride, a misshapen double row which he kept clean while his body went unwashed, and between which the man could bend a nail.

  10. In the long night his fears grew, misshapen and grotesque.

  11. Gloria saw it swing at times like a huge, misshapen pendulum; watched it crawl up after him.

  12. What sombre, misshapen edifice they should build upon these corner-stones of hate and contempt was a matter into which no conjecture could enter even slightly had their compelling environment been different.

  13. He held the black cloak closely around his thick, misshapen form.

  14. Releasing the safety catch of the grenade, Dixon hurled the tiny missile straight at the rock floor just under the feet of that vast misshapen creature.

  15. Many years ago I had a visit from an English gentleman who was travelling through India, and he expressed his surprise we had such limited success in turning the people from worshipping such ugly misshapen stones.

  16. At your feet, close to the walls, you see misshapen stones which are regarded as sacred.

  17. The figures of men were moving about, their great misshapen shadows shifting with them.

  18. Nor ever seen her so beautiful as in that miniature, standing at the door of her golden cage, bravely facing the monstrous misshapen figure of her captor.

  19. Presently our meal came to an end; the misshapen monster with the pointed ears cleared the remains away, and Montgomery left me alone in the room again.

  20. Then out of the bushes came three Beast People, with hunched shoulders, protruding heads, misshapen hands awkwardly held, and inquisitive, unfriendly eyes and advanced towards me with hesitating gestures.

  21. Before me were the clumsy backs of perhaps a score of these Beast People, their misshapen heads half hidden by their shoulder-blades.

  22. But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam; But like a foul misshapen stigmatic, Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided, As venom toads or lizards' dreadful stings.

  23. With his fists he pounded his misshapen legs.

  24. For often before, when a picture, not as now the original of it, occupied him, misshapen parodies of rest had been his till cock-crow.

  25. Had it not been for vexing my poor kinswoman Norna, I would have sent his misbegotten body, and misshapen jolterhead, after my bonny flask, as sure as Saint Magnus lies at Kirkwall!

  26. The dwarf bent his beetle-brows, shook his misshapen head, and made a quick sharp indication, throwing his right hand up to his shoulder with the thumb pointed backwards.

  27. All turned their eyes in the direction in which he pointed, and saw the hideous misshapen figure of Pacolet, with his eyes fixed and glaring at them through the smoke.

  28. Nick grinned, and did a clumsy obeisance by way of courtesy, but kept his broad misshapen person firmly placed in the doorway.

  29. The lonely shepherd avoids the place; for at sunrise, high noon, or sunset, the misshapen form of the necromantic owner may sometimes still be seen sitting by the Dwarfie Stone.

  30. It is well known that melons frequently, in certain situations, lose their circular form, and grow larger on one side than the other, and that those misshapen fruits are always bad.

  31. It not only produces corns, but makes the feet misshapen to cramp them.

  32. What would you think of a mother who would deride and taunt her misshapen babe?

  33. He swallowed hastily, with the choking sensation of a parent whose child has at last revolted, for his rival was the misshapen boy that he had taken off the streets, and clothed and fed for years.

  34. The sight of a misshapen devil, with murder in his eyes, spitting insults, had sobered her like cold water.

  35. The bricklayer stared at him open-mouthed, surprised and alarmed by the appearance of this misshapen devil with the glittering eyes.

  36. It was this city that had given him life on bitter terms, a misshapen and neglected street-arab, scouring the streets for food, of less account than a stray dog.

  37. But burnt on his brain was the vision of a misshapen devil who struck at him, with snarling lips, and a desperate flight through avenues of silent, impassive streets that heard with indifference his cry for help.

  38. No one on board the Doraine, however, doubted for an instant that he had discovered, too late, the truth about his misshapen assistant.

  39. What appeared to be a clump of cypress trees, fantastic, misshapen objects that seemed to, shrink back in terror from the assaulting breakers, stood out in bold relief upon a rocky point to the south and west of the observation hill.

  40. Jack, who looked more like a misshapen pillar of mud than a boy.

  41. Louis made not the slightest protest when his misshapen little guardian left him alone with Aunt Nancy.

  42. He was an odd-looking little fellow, with a head which seemed unusually small because the hair was closely cropped, and a bent, misshapen body several sizes too large for the thin legs which barely raised it above the gunwales.

  43. His misshapen body was like a pair of bellows, his head resting between his broad shoulders, moved up and down like a buoy; every breath sounded like a steam-whistle, and could be heard from afar.

  44. It looked as if it was made of odd parts, so bony and misshapen was it.


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