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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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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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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Both Kristoforas and his brother, Juozapas, were cripples, the latter having lost one leg by having it run over, and Kristoforas having congenital dislocation of the hip, which made it impossible for him ever to walk.† (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 was congenital, he apologized, eyes wryly aglint behind his gold-rim specs.† (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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Maybe it's a character flaw, but for me it is a congenital one.† (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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"Congenital, or transfer effect?" asked Kubera.† (source)
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Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.† (source)
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Catherine, it turned out, had a congenital lung defect.† (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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