Sample Sentences forcongenital (auto-selected)
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No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings. (source)congenital = present at birth or always present
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It was congenital, he apologized, eyes wryly aglint behind his gold-rim specs.† (source)
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While Sanaubar's brilliant green eyes and impish face had, rumor has it, tempted countless men into sin, Ali had a congenital paralysis of his lower facial muscles, a condition that rendered him unable to smile and left him perpetually grim-faced.† (source)
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Even today no one knows the cause of this disease process, and experts have suggested possible causes: the result of a stroke, a congenital abnormality, a low-grade tumor, or the more common concept, a virus.† (source)
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Congenital cataracts.† (source)
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Pooning a bimbo box takes more skill than a ped would ever imagine, because of their very roadunworthiness, their congenital lack of steel or other ferrous matter for the MagnaPoon to bite down on.† (source)
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Maybe it's a character flaw, but for me it is a congenital one.† (source)
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According to Lopsang, during the fifeen or twenty minutes Fischer spent on the summit, he complained repeatedly that he wasn't feeling well-something the congenitally stoic guide almost never did.† (source)
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It turned out that he suffers from a very rare condition called congenital analgesia.† (source)
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A good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally?† (source)
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Catherine, it turned out, had a congenital lung defect.† (source)
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It was true what I'd heard, that his heart was congenitally diseased, and he was now in urgent need of a transplant.† (source)
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Florentino Ariza had stripped her of the virginity of a conventional marriage, more pernicious than congenital virginity or the abstinence of widowhood.† (source)
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Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.† (source)
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And I-I'm playing with cobblestones and shingling a roof, while a transcontinental railroad system is collapsing in the hands of congenital ward heelers.† (source)
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This would suggest that a parent who does so is either unenlightened or—more interestingly—congenitally honest.† (source)
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