In a sentence
Six example sentences with deformation, each labelled with its topic.
Decades of runoff produced a slow deformation of the estuary, and the oyster beds that fed the town vanished.
Environment
The second half of the novel traces the deformation of a generous man into someone who trusts nobody.
Literature
He argued that endless surveillance works a deformation of public life, since people stop saying what they actually think.
Philosophy
Critics called the emergency decree a deformation of the republic, since it turned a debating chamber into a rubber stamp.
Politics
Purists heard the pop cover as a deformation of the hymn, its slow modal melody hammered flat into a dance beat.
Music
The restorer treated the Victorian overpainting as a deformation of the original, since it had thickened every face into a doll's.
Art
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