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
  • But when the results came back, the news wasn't good; Lauren's was malignant.
    — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 25 June 2021
  • The man's heart, starved of oxygen, sped up into a malignant rhythm.
    — Melissa Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
  • My once-a-day walk of the unit was a stroll through a malignant winter wonderland.
    — Leslie Gauthier, New York Times, 22 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
  • The house, too, takes on a more malignant life of its own as Edna steadily becomes a stranger to Kay and Sam.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
  • But many maintain that there is something malignant about the species.
    — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Just as my half-dream predicted, the tests came back showing the mass was malignant.
    — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The murder is a crime of passion, a malignant outgrowth of Dmitri’s desire.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • These growths can in some instances progress to malignant cancer with time.
    — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The process turbocharges the T-cells to attack B-cells, a normal part of the immune system that turn malignant in leukemia.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 12 July 2017
  • This common malignant tumor arises in the cerebellum, a part of the brain located at the base of the skull.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Two weeks later, results of the biopsy came back and showed a malignant tumor.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The drugs unleash the patient’s own immune system to kill malignant cells.
    — Denise Grady, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 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
  • Testing revealed that the cause was a malignant brain tumor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The mod gives them a receptor that lets them locate and attack malignant cells.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The Many Saints echoes the cycle of malignant parenting laid out in the series: Greek tragedy as black comedy.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • A few months back, Janelle revealed that she was diagnosed with a non-malignant form of skin cancer.
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
  • That study will assess why cells in those patients turned malignant.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The malignant what’s-wrong with-Chucky narrative had begun to take root.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Of these surgeries, between 13 to 21% of these cysts are considered to be malignant.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 25 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • But by summer’s end, the malignant cells had attacked her throat, and finally her bones.
    — Janet Lee, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Was the attack the knee-jerk decision of a malignant narcissist?
    — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • One of Michael Strahan’s youngest daughters is battling with a malignant brain tumor, and her father is right by her side in the fight.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 11 Jan. 2024
  • When the reality star was six months old, doctors discovered that she was born with a malignant glioma on the right side of her brain.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • Advances in imaging have also led to novel ways of determining whether a tumor is benign or malignant.
    — Linda Carroll, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024

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