How to Use malignant in a Sentence

malignant

adjective
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  • Tom Foxx has a malignant neoplasm of the lower lobe in his lung.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • They are meant for a network of strangers and are built to be suspicious of malignant forces.
    — Quinn Norton, The Atlantic, 21 May 2018
  • But many maintain that there is something malignant about the species.
    — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • These growths can in some instances progress to malignant cancer with time.
    — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • My once-a-day walk of the unit was a stroll through a malignant winter wonderland.
    — Leslie Gauthier, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Testing revealed that the cause was a malignant brain tumor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The man's heart, starved of oxygen, sped up into a malignant rhythm.
    — Melissa Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
  • The mod gives them a receptor that lets them locate and attack malignant cells.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
  • That study will assess why cells in those patients turned malignant.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Just as my half-dream predicted, the tests came back showing the mass was malignant.
    — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The drugs unleash the patient’s own immune system to kill malignant cells.
    — Denise Grady, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Two weeks later, results of the biopsy came back and showed a malignant tumor.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Doctors found a malignant tumor near one of his vocal cords.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Now malignant tumors bloomed, appearing on more than half the mice.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • If malignant cells are found, the standard treatment is to surgically remove all the lymph nodes in the same area.
    — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 7 June 2017
  • Doctors have a better chance of not leaving behind parts of a malignant tumor.
    — WSJ, 24 June 2018
  • The system generates two scores, one for benign and one for malignant, each on a scale of zero to one.
    — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But when the results came back, the news wasn't good; Lauren's was malignant.
    — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 25 June 2021
  • The murder is a crime of passion, a malignant outgrowth of Dmitri’s desire.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • Zen died at five months old in December from a malignant brain tumor.
    — Anna Chan, Billboard, 15 July 2022
  • These tumors can pop up anywhere on the body, as either benign or malignant.
    — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The real culprit was a malignant tumor in his left kidney that was pressing on nerves from his lower spine.
    — Paula Andalo, Kaiser Health News, 19 July 2017
  • If a cluster of malignant cells is waging a war on your body, everything else is moot, right?
    — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • This is where a malignant brain tumor, as yet undiagnosed, struck me down and left me thrashing on the ground.
    — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The statistics spell out doom for anyone diagnosed with a malignant lump.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Researchers have not found any malignant cases of melasma.
    — Melanie Rud, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But such malignant actors are not only at work in Scotland.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Where does this malignant conspiracy theory come from in the first place?
    — Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Now the world’s rogue prison wardens and malignant actors of all stripes have every reason to increase their demands.
    — The Editors, National Review, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Don’t let malicious and malignant actors sow strife among us.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020

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