How to Use faulty in a Sentence

faulty

adjective
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  • What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • In fact, the deficit reduction premise was faulty from the start.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Customers won’t be charged if the item is found to be faulty or the wrong item was shipped.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Or they were caught in house fires sparked by faulty wiring or use of a space heater.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • It was built on assumptions that over the years have proved to be faulty.
    — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • What to Consider The spray bottle tips are known to clog or be faulty.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • There were supposed to be three, but one of the quartz panes was faulty, so its opening had to be plugged with more steel.
    — Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • What if, earlier in the day, someone sneaked in through that one window with the faulty latch, then hid in the basement?
    — Talia Argondezzi, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The valve that went faulty during launch also did not come back online when the crew test-fired the spacecraft's thrusters.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • Owners will be contacted again when a fix for the faulty part is available.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 15 May 2023
  • Researchers are now trying to find the locations in the brain that send faulty signals to the larynx.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Favorable failings The use of faulty AI is not new for the health care industry.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The plant was dealing with a faulty valve discovered the day before, so no pellets were rolling off the line.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Wolski surprised some by saying the premise of the question may be faulty.
    — Will Tizard, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Bankman-Fried wrote a follow-up post asserting that the firm’s findings are faulty.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The Camp Fire was ignited by a faulty transmission line.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • George Gascón, the city of Los Angeles and the investigators who built the faulty case against him.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Hayes says that’s based on faulty assumptions about how broadly the tax would apply.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The Vanguard, which fired the faulty missile, has been in service for thirty years—five years longer than it was designed for.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
  • The fire began with a faulty power strip in a bedroom on the 15th floor of an apartment building in China’s far west.
    — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The results proved faulty as some motorists didn’t always comply with the set speed limit.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Imagine a hundred projects using the same faulty network to check for issues.
    — Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • During the time the faulty rules were in effect, the program’s number of O transplants fell by roughly half, Reed said.
    — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2024
  • These migrants’ only hope for a second chance is a faulty smartphone app.
    — Lillian Perlmutter, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In the previous decades, the Nazis had cited faulty science to claim the Aryan race was superior.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But that signalling system can be faulty, or get injured.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • An explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments in 2016 was caused by faulty equipment in a gas line.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Parts to fix problems aren’t always available, even after consumers are notified about their faulty vehicles.
    — Leah Olajide, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2024
  • That has been a successful defense for Amazon in the past, including in a 2018 case concerning the purchase of a faulty hoverboard that exploded and burned down an Amazon shopper’s house in Tennessee.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 July 2024

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