MANGLE in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for MANGLE, such as:
1. The explosions kill them and mangle bodies so badly.
2. His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.
3. Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.
4. His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.
5. With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.
2. His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.
3. Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.
4. His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.
5. With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.
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Meanings and Examples of MANGLE
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mangle
v. injure badly by beating
v. press with a mangle
Classic Sentence:
1 On being shown her chamber, she was so dreadfully sensible of its comforts as to suggest the inference that she would have preferred to pass the night on the mangle in the laundry.
2 The cotton was mangled and trampled where cavalry and infantry, forced off the narrow road by the artillery, had marched through the green bushes, grinding them into the earth.
3 Bonnie, who had watched from the window impatiently all afternoon, anxious to display a mangled collection of beetles and roaches to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests.
4 Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.
5 His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.
6 Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about fourteen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so.
7 His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
8 The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
9 With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
10 We stood with bitter hearts on either side of the mangled body, overwhelmed by this sudden and irrevocable disaster which had brought all our long and weary labours to so piteous an end.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
11 The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.
12 At length I saw all our Italian women, and my mother herself, torn, mangled, massacred, by the monsters who disputed over them.
13 On an average, the tunneling cost a life a day and several manglings; it was seldom, however, that more than a dozen or two men heard of any one accident.
14 After La Trobe had been excruciated by the Rector's interpretation, by the maulings and the manglings of the actors.
Example Sentence:
1 The explosions kill them and mangle bodies so badly.
2 His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.
3 After the accident we tried to identify the victims, but the bodies were too hadly mangled to be recognized.
4 I could hardly recognize the body of the driver, as it had been badly mangled up in the accident.