How to use faulty in a sentence

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• Many house fires are caused by faulty appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines and dryers.From the entry appliance
• Take back faulty goods to the shop where you bought them.From the entry take back
• The pilot quickly recovered from the power surge caused by the faulty fuel system.From the entry power surge
• A faulty connection proved to be the culprit.From the entry prove
• Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.From the entry drill
• An upstanding merchant will exchange a faulty product.From the entry upstanding
• The apparent cause of the fire was faulty wiring.From the entry apparent
• Always return faulty goods to the manufacturer.From the entry manufacturer
• The faulty wiring caused the unfortunate worker’s accidental electrocution.From the entry electrocution
• I brought my notes lest faulty memory lead me astray.From the entry lest
• He said the accident was caused by a faulty trigger, but I think it was the nut behind the bolt.From the entry nut behind the bolt
• If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.From the entry refund
• The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced.From the entry hush money
• Our supplier blamed its subsuppliers for the faulty components.From the entry subsupplier
• Yoon’s case, “It was a wrong verdict based on faulty investigations.”2020 December 17, Choe Sang-Hun, “He Spent 20 Years in Prison, Until a Serial Killer Confessed to the Crime”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Suwon
• Now Dianamania flickers fitfully on and off like faulty neon while Beatlemania blazes stronger than ever.2005, Philip Norman, Shout!: the Beatles in their generation. From the entry Dianamania
• The intermittent signal dropout was down to a faulty connection which he'd fixed in seconds.2005, Stel Pavlou, Decipher. From the entry down to
• Your logic is faulty, reflecting cachexia and the general agnosy that plagues your race.1987, Porter Gulch Review - Volume 3, Issue 1, page 14. From the entry agnosy
• You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine). From the entry transmat
• Recent experiments and observations, however, prove that single-handedness is merely the result of faulty or restricted education.1907, The New England Medical Gazette - Volume 42, page 325. From the entry single-handedness
• Luckily, unlike Buchanan's weapon, this one was faulty; the motor ran out, but the automatic destruct function failed to work.2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 22:54 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original…. From the entry scream
• The cause of Claus’ incident — perhaps morning fog, wind or faulty directions to the North Pole — remains unclear.2020 December 21, Faith E. Pinho, “Santa Claus got run over by a power line in Sacramento”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry Claus
• When the theology is faulty, the ecclesialogy falls apart.1998 August 19, Legatus, “Interesting trend”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025. From the entry ecclesialogy
• John didn't know what faulty vision saw — blurs, probably.1984, Department of English, Ascent - Volume 10 - Issue 1, The Illinois University Press • The California University Press, page 59. From the entry infundibuliformity
• The state admitted the dates indicated in those indictments were not correct and that other evidence was "faulty."1979 April 28, Tom Reeves, “Revere Sex Cases Resolved”, in Gay Community News, page 1. From the entry nol pros
• The buckets used in depositing concrete were faulty and a considerable loss of concrete was caused by misdumping.1908, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department - Volume 8, page 430. From the entry misdump
• So humans are rampant dodgy dot connectors, and they also suffer from an array of biases that make them susceptible to faulty belief.2014 November 8, Will Storr, “'Ebola is man-made', and other crazy conspiracy theories”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media…. From the entry dot connector
• The system will continue the cycle of panic, reboot, and panic as it attempts to reload the faulty driver every time it reboots after panic.2010, Solaris system engineers, “Managing Devices”, in Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration Series)…. From the entry panic
• A faulty carriage wheel, a misshod horse . . . something such as this cost me my parents, and all my happiness.2010, Julie Berry, The Amaranth Enchantment, page 81. From the entry misshod
• Puffback can also be caused by a faulty pressure regulator that allows oil to drip into the combustion chamber after the burner shuts down.1999, Frank C. Montagna, Responding to Routine Emergencies, PennWell Books, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry puffback
• Faulty science is seen in the "woozle effect," where questionable research findings become "established facts" despite being based on an unsatisfactory methodology.1989, Howard Dubowitz, Eli Newberger, “Pediatrics and Child Abuse”, in Dante Cicchetti, Vicki Carlson, editors, Child Maltreatment: Theory…. From the entry Woozle effect
• Reason: he saved a "substantial" amount of money on production line costs: fewer miswraps and jams and faulty packs with the cellophane .1975, Package Engineering - Volume 20, pages 1975-37. From the entry miswrap
• Far more important than correcting faulty education resulting from the activities of the nonschool educative agencies is preventing, where possible, such maleducation from taking place.1955, Nelson Louis Bossing, Principles of Secondary Education, page 212. From the entry maleducation
• So the faulty bridge was moved to the front of the song, creating in the process one of the most striking opening moments in Beatles music.2012, Kenneth Womack, Todd F. Davis, Reading the Beatles, page 43. From the entry front
• No common wine fault is likely to cause serious health problems but you won't want to take the tasting much further if the wine smells faulty.2003, Godfrey Spence, Wine tasting, page 5. From the entry fault
• Offlining a memory processor can be accomplished by using the flexible interleaving capability described earlier to interleave segments across subsets of the memory processors, avoiding the faulty one(s).1986, Kai Hwang, Steven M. Jacobs, Earl E. Swartzlander, Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, page 462. From the entry offline
• Others arise because of a faulty policy formulated by a group of executives whose decision‐making procedures were impaired by errors having little or nothing to do with groupthink.1973 May 28, Irving L. Janis, “Groupthink in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2021. From the entry groupthink

Meaning of faulty

1. adjective Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
2. adjective At fault, to blame; guilty.

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Questions about faulty in a sentence

How do you use faulty in a sentence?

Faulty is used as an adjective. For example: “They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.”

What is a short sentence with faulty?

“Always return faulty goods to the manufacturer.”

What does faulty mean?

Faulty means having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.