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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Congenital cataracts.† (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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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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Catherine, it turned out, had a congenital lung defect.† (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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It turned out that he suffers from a very rare condition called congenital analgesia.† (source)
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He declared that she was congenitally incapable of forming a single letter worthy of the least of Milton's words; but she persisted; and again he suddenly threw himself into the task of teaching her with a combination of stormy intensity, concentrated patience, and occasional bursts of interesting disquisition on the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.† (source)
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"Congenital, or transfer effect?" asked Kubera.† (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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unleashed against any living thing since the beginnings, including man himself, to such an extent that just as an instinct for reproduction was attributed to humankind, so there must have been another one more definite and pressing, which was the instinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invulnerable because of man's congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, andper omnia secula seculorum, the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun.† (source)
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Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.† (source)
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