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Six example sentences with deform, each labelled with its topic.
Heat from the fire deformed the steel beams until nothing in the roof frame held its original straight shape.
Architecture
Leaving the clay too wet deforms the bowl on the wheel, and what was round slumps into a shapeless ring.
Art
Under enough pressure ice deforms rather than cracking, which is why a glacier slowly loses every sharp edge it once had.
Science
Printed parts deform if the bed cools too quickly, and the corners curl up into a warped, useless plate.
Technology
A cheap wide lens deforms faces near the frame edge, stretching a nose until the sitter looks unrecognizable.
Photography
Overproofed dough deforms in the oven, collapsing from a tall dome into a flat, misshapen round.
Cooking
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