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 fire was caused by a faulty space heater on the third floor, city officials said.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Some had been left vacant and rotting, with faulty wiring and leaky roofs.
    — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One of the main reasons is that the underground wiring is faulty and not buried in conduit.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • But if the thesis is faulty, there is value in the exercise.
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
    — Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The second launch, two years later, was also plagued by faulty thrusters.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 2 Aug. 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
  • Earlier this year, the transponders that will blip data back to Earth were found to be faulty and had to be repaired.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • What the public did not know was the intelligence used was faulty and the case for war extremely slim.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • And if a faulty tape player ruined a dancing routine for the Dancing Dolls, well, that was all right.
    — Jeff Kleinman, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Human memories can be faulty in the sense that a person remembers things one way, and months later remembers the same memory differently.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • In recent years, city code and building inspectors have found faulty fire-safety systems and elevators inoperable for months at a time, effectively trapping many elderly and disabled residents inside.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024

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