FAULTY in a Sentence

Learn FAULTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

19 example sentences for FAULTY, such as:

1. I suppose my memory is getting faulty.
2. The logic behind this statement is faulty.
3. We traced the trouble to a faulty transformer.
4. The probable cause of the fire was faulty wiring.
5. A full refund will be given if the item is faulty.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAULTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
faulty
 a.  working badly or unreliably because of imperfections
Classic Sentence:
1  Such behaviour as this, so exactly the reverse of her own, appeared no more meritorious to Marianne, than her own had seemed faulty to her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
2  Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
3  I suppose my memory is getting faulty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  It is a great defect of temper, made worse by a very faulty habit of self-indulgence; and to see your sister suffering from it must be exceedingly painful to such feelings as yours.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Your hiding-place, my dear Watson, was very faulty.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
7  If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46
8  The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
Example Sentence:
1  We traced the trouble to a faulty transformer.
2  The probable cause of the fire was faulty wiring.
3  The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire.
4  A full refund will be given if the item is faulty.
5  Perhaps anger had clouded his vision, perhaps his judgment had been faulty.
6  The CD player was faulty so we sent it back to the manufacturers.
7  The logic behind this statement is faulty.
8  Poor nutrition because of an insufficient or poorly balanced diet or faulty digestion or utilization of foods.
9  Paradoxically, fallacious reasoning does not always yield erroneous results: even though your logic may be faulty, the answer you get may nevertheless be correct.
10  Many of common foot complaints, like heel pain, arch pain and ball of foot pain, are caused by faulty foot mechanics.
11  The share of people asking Google about faulty passwords, email spam and computer viruses has plummeted since 2004, when the first data are available.