DISFIGURE in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for DISFIGURE, such as:

1. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying it.
2. His sensitive face was all disfigured with excitement.
3. The ugly frown liked to disfigure his normally pleasant face.
4. But I lay with my disfigured face to the wall and felt no particular gratitude.
5. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISFIGURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disfigure
 v.  change appearance of something or someone to the negative; deform
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Then Ulysses answered, "Madam, wife of Ulysses, do not disfigure yourself further by grieving thus bitterly for your loss, though I can hardly blame you for doing so."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
2  Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
3  Their features though greatly disfigured, had a slight resemblance to those of Pangloss and the unhappy Jesuit and Westphalian Baron, brother to Miss Cunegonde.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
4  It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
5  The walls had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded from them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
6  Jean Valjean, as we have just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been unrecognizable in full noonday.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
7  He examined the dead man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
8  My right arm was tolerably restored; disfigured, but fairly serviceable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
9  Rosa Dartle sprang up from her seat; recoiled; and in recoiling struck at her, with a face of such malignity, so darkened and disfigured by passion, that I had almost thrown myself between them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
10  Since then, I have been a mere disfigured piece of furniture between you both; having no eyes, no ears, no feelings, no remembrances.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
11  This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
12  His emaciated young face, disfigured by the half-shaven head, hung down hopelessly.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
13  Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VI
14  But I lay with my disfigured face to the wall and felt no particular gratitude.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
15  His sensitive face was all disfigured with excitement.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
Example Sentence:
1  The ugly frown liked to disfigure his normally pleasant face.
2  If I recall correctly from his book, what Obama talked about was some picture of a black man who was disfigured from trying to bleach is skin.