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How to use malignancy in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Malignancy means the state of being malignant or diseased. Example: “Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.”

Examples of malignancy by meaning

nounThat which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

  • Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Baskerville Hall”, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes...
  • Millett reminds us forcefully of the hellishness and malignancy of these places, where mind-altering drugs are prescribed punitively or at random, attendants are abusive, food is unhealthy, and numbing boredom, ugliness, pain and filth prevail.1990 August 31, Amy Hoffman, “"Crazy" Or Just Crazy?”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 11

More sentences with malignancy

  • The thermoexpandable nitinol stent: a long-term alternative in patients without nephropathy or malignancy.2019, Ojas Shah, Brian Matlaga, Emerging Technologies in Renal Stone Management, An Issue of Urologic Clinics, page 254. From the entry thermoexpandable
  • Until now a total of 38 Patients with malignancies of the head and neck were examined.2007 June 28, Bernd Gagel, Marc Piroth, Michael Pinkawa, Patrick Reinartz, Michael Zimny, Hans J Kaiser, Sven Stanzel, Branka Asadpour…. From the entry histograph
  • Angiosarcoma is the most-common differentiated malignant neoplasm of the heart and accounts for 10–15% of primary cardiac malignancies.2017, Gaballah AH, Jensen CT, “Angiosarcoma: clinical and imaging features from head to toe”, in The British journal of radiology, volume…. From the entry neoplasm
  • When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 135. From the entry choriocarcinoma
  • Farrell had been to prison, and he thought the daily malignancy he had witnessed there had hardened his heart.1998, Michael S. Ledwidge, The narrowback. From the entry harden someone's heart
  • The control groups generally comprised patients with malignancy, tuberculosis, parapneumonic effusion, pulmonary embolism, hepatic hydrothorax, postcardiac injury syndrome, collagen disease, and other conditions.2015 August 6, “Diagnostic Accuracy of Natriuretic Peptides for Heart Failure in Patients with Pleural Effusion: A Systematic Review and…. From the entry postcardiac
  • Scholars will lash out at one another with unbridled malignancy over what appear to the laity to be minuscule, often risible points of debate.George Steiner (1987), George Steiner: A Reader, Oxford University Press, page 199. From the entry odium philologicum
  • Instead, Hawk's antidisestablishmentarianism, like a cancerous wart on the end of the nose, is perched at the fuzzy border separating ontology from oncology, malignity from malignancy.2002, Angela Hague; David Lavery (credited as editors, but actually authors of the compiled fictional reviews), Teleparody…. From the entry antidisestablishmentarianism
  • However, SCM with unknown primary malignancies are very difficult to distinguish from astrocytomas, especially HGAs, because of their similar features on standard MRI, such as obvious enhancement and peritumor edema.2015 July 22, “Differentiation between Solitary Cerebral Metastasis and Astrocytoma on the Basis of Subventricular Zone Involvement on…. From the entry peritumor
  • This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre…. From the entry instinct

Meaning of malignancy

  1. noun The state of being malignant or diseased.
  2. noun A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  3. noun That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

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Questions about malignancy in a sentence

How do you use malignancy in a sentence?
Malignancy is used as a noun. For example: “Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.”
What is a short sentence with malignancy?
“The thermoexpandable nitinol stent: a long-term alternative in patients without nephropathy or malignancy.”
What does malignancy mean?
Malignancy means the state of being malignant or diseased.

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