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Sentences ending with defect

The most of us have his defect. [5]
He was not thoroughly up in the backhanded stroke, but it was very gratifying to his numerous friends to know that, in time, practice would have overcome this defect. [5]
Although she has provided so many ways of getting rid of unsatisfactory members and officials, she was still afraid she might have left a life-preserver lying around somewhere, therefore she devised a rule to cover that defect. [5]
Thus the custom of society establishes the charge of immorality upon the technical defect. [11]
He can't think of a rational name to save him, but I do not let him see that I am aware of his defect. [5]
They found the nation without a religion, and they repaired the defect. [5]
It is a killing defect. [5]
His khaki fitted him as only uniform can fit a man with a physique without defect. [11]
There was a blemish in the execution of the song, but to Alonzo it seemed an added charm instead of a defect. [5]
It may have been a fancy, but I thought it returned a sound which Mr. Richard Briggs would have recognized as implying an organic defect. [6]

Sentences containing defect two or more times

She has the usual defect, the common defect, the universal defect, the defect that has never been missing from any ship that ever sailed--she has imperfect beds. [5]

More example sentences with the word defect in them

He said: 'There--now you have touched upon a crying defect in the complaint system. [5]
Even in subjects which had no such elements of horror he finds the materials for the delectation of his ferocious pencil; he makes up for the defect by rendering with a brutal realism deformity and ugliness. [6]
And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength. [2]
But this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. [2]
This circumstance, which was deeply lamented by his parents and tutors, was in fact, in the best opinions, an advantage to him; for it often happens that apparent superiority does us damage, and that from apparent defect springs the saving of our life. [10]
A sentence framed under the auspices of the Second could have a kind of meaning--a sort of deceptive semblance of it --whereas it is only under the magic of the Third that that defect would disappear. [5]
He cannot prove to me that I am insane, for my mind has the same defect that afflicts his. [5]
The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions. [2]
Little inaccuracies of this kind did not concern him much; he was a wholesale dealer in illustrations, and could not trouble himself about a trifling defect in this or that particular article. [6]
I never tell the truth about Tom Reed--but that is his defect, truth; he speaks the truth always. [5]
He thought if the crook was in his brain, instead of his back, he could not fairly be blamed for any consequence of this natural defect, whatever lawyers or divines might call it. [6]
He said that that was a defect which would make up-hill wheeling pretty difficult for me at first; but he also said the bicycle would soon remove it. [5]
These figures show that there was a defect somewhere. [5]
Tom Reed said that my principal defect was inaccuracy of statement. [5]
I wish to take a hint in education from the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, who regards the cultivation of too much land as a great defect in our New England farming. [3]
This defect it shall be my earnest endeavour to remedy. [5]
He couldn't wait satisfactorily at table--a prime defect, for if you haven't your own servant in an Indian hotel you are likely to have a slow time of it and go away hungry. [5]
There was a radical defect somewhere, and I must search it out and cure it. [5]
The defect turned out to be the one already spoken of--two stories in one, a farce and a tragedy. [5]
Now, this can only happen by some defect in your conduct. [7]
It was his only defect, in her eyes. [5]
There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character. [5]
We have thought of remedying this last defect by putting the high screen in front of the singers, and close to the minister, as it was before. [4]
Soft-hearted weakness is not usually your defect, but you will utterly spoil Polykarp. [10]
If there was not a certain amount of "mutual admiration" among some of those I have mentioned it was a great pity, and implied a defect in the nature of men who were otherwise largely endowed. [6]
There was no malice behind it; and besides, the defect was not of his own creation; it was the work of Noel Rainguesson, who had nurtured it, fostered it, built it up and perfected it, for the entertainment he got out of it. [5]
I have read it twice, and unless I am an idiot, it hasn't a single defect in it from the first word to the last. [5]
What that defect is, I think I know. [7]
Besides, his defect is one of those which will vanish with years. [10]
For the deception in the case of the correspondent who invents "news" is of the same quality as the lack of sincerity in a poem or in a prose fiction; there is a moral and probably a mental defect in both. [4]
He examined a hundred different ways--none of them would answer; for in even the very obscurest and secretest of them there was always the fatal defect of a risk, a chance, a possibility that he might be found out. [5]
And you notice his defect of memory. [5]
The judge laid himself out hospitality to make them have a good time, and if there was a defect anywhere, it was not his fault. [5]
We waited for him to speak, but he didn't; so, to assuage our solicitude we had to ask him if there was any defect in Fischer's good luck. [5]
Even what would have been a defect in others became a beauty in him. [10]
The process which has been going on ever since the world began seems to have a defect in it; strength, vital power, somehow escapes. [4]
Yet I may go so far as to say that the defect it seeks to remedy seems to me a real one. [9]
He owned this defect of temperament, but he said that it compensated the opposite in her character. [8]
I have no defect like this. [5]
There was a defect in the furnace, the place had caught fire, and some of the wooden flooring had been burnt before the aged Monseigneur Lourde discovered it. [11]
Not the slightest defect escaped Eva during this inspection. [10]
But Gifted must be looked after, that he should not provoke the unamiable comments of the city youth by any defect or extravagance of costume. [6]
The late Matthew Arnold said that the main defect in Shelley's make-up was that he was destitute of the sense of humor. [5]
This I thought a suspicious circumstance, and I was thereby induced to examine the deeds very closely, with a view to the discovery of some defect by which to overturn the title, being almost convinced then it was founded in fraud. [7]
Our owner was a practical person and he perceived that this defect must be mended if he hoped to find a purchaser for the king. [5]

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