| Blooms were misshapen, small and nothing like the incurving form I had expected. |
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| The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth. |
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| One of the coins was in a wonderfully good state of preservation, while the other was battered and misshapen. |
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| The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places. |
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| The fruits are misshapen and unnatural looking, a kind of elephantine mutation of, say, cherries. |
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| It is a sad and embarrassing moment as the valuable and custom-cut marble stands misshapen. |
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| Also in the glass case was a small laptop computer, destroyed, misshapen but still recognisable. |
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| What little hair remained on its head was ragged and clumped, and the nose was bent and misshapen. |
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| Check it out in another 20 years and the likelihood is that it will be misshapen and deformed. |
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| However, nothing is more frustrating after so much effort than seeing misshapen or rotten fruits on the vines. |
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| I will probably use this for a box top, though it's a little misshapen for that. |
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| It was an area of open heathland broken up by small clumps of trees, many misshapen and stunted by the constant attentions of wandering ponies. |
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| Shoes provide a perfect environment for the fungus that causes athlete's foot or thick brown misshapen toenails. |
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| Enter the UglyRipe, a lumpen, misshapen, odd duck of a tomato grown near Naples, Florida. |
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| Still, the wind snapped one of my tent's poles and it's oddly misshapen at first light. |
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| Signs of a sick tree include a premature change in leaf color, misshapen leaves, thinness of the canopy and early loss of leaves. |
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| The syndrome, which leads to a deformed or misshapen head, is caused when a baby's head is in contact with a firm surface for lengthy periods. |
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| These pack-houses have machines which grade for size and conveyor lines where people pick out misshapen and damaged produce. |
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| In amazement, Ms. K looks at the misshapen creatures surrounded by tufts of shaggy hair. |
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| Frogs found in the vicinity of the refuge's oil fields had missing or misshapen hind legs and feet, and missing eyes. |
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| Those that survive to become tadpoles often have misshapen mouths and are unable to feed properly. |
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| Women are reported to have liposuction to slim down tubby toes, or unsightly misshapen bones whittled smooth by laser. |
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| True, but one seems to look less professional when wearing a non-crisp, unstarched uniform while wearing a misshapen beret. |
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| The bow was unstrung and secured to the tree, next to a large misshapen sack. |
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| She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick. |
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| Eventually, the misshapen forms predominate, and the animal dies with its brain full of holes. |
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| Relatively misshapen and formless, the dorsal figure is perhaps even more expressive of physical torment. |
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| The site for the Loft, a 77 unit condominium development, is a right-angled triangle with both acute angles cut off so it is more a misshapen pentagon. |
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| And the rest of the lads lark about and laugh at a misshapen nude. |
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| We planned to find out whether these misshapen galaxies were more likely than regular ones to host active nuclei. |
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| Scab lesions on young fruit will cause the fruit to become misshapen and even cracked. |
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| The threshed beans have to be sorted in order to eliminate beans that are damaged or misshapen. |
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| After a long while, she ends her speech which she seemed to be reading from a misshapen scrap of paper that she pulls this way and that. |
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| Check that the roofing beams are correctly positioned, are not misshapen, and are completely secured to the rest of the structure. |
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| If you see anything yellowing or misshapen in the field, it should be removed. |
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| When they are misshapen, however, they can have devastating effects, attacking the brain, killing cells and creating gaps in tissue. |
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| The romantic musical: the story of the beautiful girl and the misshapen beast is one of the oldest fables in the world. |
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| If the commutator is misshapen, scratched or badly worn, it should be removed for machining. |
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| In fact, whereas farsightedness is caused by a misshapen eye, presbyopia is simply the result of the lens becoming less flexible. |
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| In consultation, the surgeon will analyze the misshapen of the ear with the face. |
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| Keeping the finger pricker in this primed state can cause parts to become misshapen through tension, impairing its operation. |
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| The symbol on the patient valve is a reminder that the lip membrane must be changed immediately if it becomes crinkled, sticky or misshapen. |
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| The real Richard's skeleton shows he suffered from scoliosis – which made him short, but not especially misshapen. |
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| The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered. |
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| Some of the autistic children born to mothers who took thalidomide also had misshapen ears, as well as abnormalities in the nerves of the head and face. |
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| Lifting up her hand, she points to the misshapen fingers and peeling skin. |
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| The eggs are misshapen, rough-shelled, and contain watery albumen. |
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| In fact, scientists now think that misshapen proteins could be the key to a host of illnesses, from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to cataracts and diabetes. |
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| Because it is misshapen, the protein is destroyed by the cell's housekeeping machinery and never gets to its intended location in the cell membrane. |
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| His nose was a little misshapen and he winced as he moved his jaw. |
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| The clinical features include misshapen skull caused by coronal suture synostosis, wide-set eyes, midface hypoplasia, choanal stenosis, and shallow orbits. |
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| All we had to sell were some misshapen muffins and half-baked brownies. |
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| Promptly recycle any containers that are scratched, stained, or misshapen. |
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| A kaleidoscope of bizarre images and misshapen faces danced before him. |
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| Rusty paint cans and twisted pieces of metal crunched underfoot as I carefully ran the rope over top of the junk and around the side of a huge misshapen refrigerator. |
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| You will undoubtedly discover that spiky misshapen globes, with occasional squidgy and sticky bits, are not the easiest things to hold for a long time. |
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| His face was grotesque, but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast. |
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| Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles. |
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| The emergency room was filled with people bleeding. Grumous battlers with misshapen heads. |
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| Heavy soils are difficult to crumble sufficiently fine in order to provide a good covering layer and strongly retain excess moisture, thereby facilitating misshapen heads and rotting. |
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| This is a Leskov story, a monument to its own misshapen massiveness. |
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| I confess, I fell into a similar trap when it came to George W Bush's burgeoning painting career, particularly when he left his Putin's misshapen face period and entered his kitty cat with an attitude problem phase. |
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| Part of the reason that breathing becomes hard for emphysemics is that their rib cages and diaphragms become enlarged and misshapen as their lungs expand. |
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| Symptoms of inadequate pollination include fruit abortion and misshapen fruit. |
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| Desmin is a protein that forms structural filaments in heart muscle cells, while amyloids are misshapen lumps of protein deposited in tissues. |
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| As a result, Cynthia's skull is completely misshapen, her eye sockets are too shallow so her eyes bulge and constantly tear, and she can't close her eyes completely even when she sleeps. |
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| A bearded young man gestures urgently at his misshapen right ear. |
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| Unlike a rustic bloomer, slumped languorously across its baking tray, or a batch of misshapen floury baps, or even a proud sandwich loaf in its tin, bagels don't seem like the kind of bread that could be made at home. |
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| The inner ear consisting of the cochlea might be misshapen or malformed. |
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| Things become misshapen, ill-formed, turn in on themselves. |
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| He threw himself down on the far side and saw a white, hellishly misshapen creature pulling itself from beneath a jackstraw tumble of atlases and travel volumes. |
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| Now six-month-old Lucy has been diagnosed with severe Brachycephaly and Plagiocephaly, commonly known as Flat Head Syndrome, causing her head to be misshapen. |
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| Thou know'st, poor, patient, suffrin' dear, how she died, young and misshapen, awlung o' sickly air as had'n no need to be, an' awlung o' working people's miserable homes. |
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| Both of Leah's feet are affected by a condition known as hallux valgus, which causes her toes to be misshapen, can cause pain and affects the type of shoes she can wear. |
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