dismember

Example Sentences

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He’s seen ants work as a team to dismember prey in minutes.

From National Geographic • Jan. 22, 2024

Although their store is closed two days a week, it’s become their second home — one they don’t have to unpack and dismember at the end of the afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2022

The social safety net has tears, but the solution is to sew them up — not dismember the children who should be swaddled in it.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

Instead, the victors deprived the French of their conquests and imposed a modest indemnity, but they did not dismember the country.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I’m pretty sure the only thing you could dismember is a sandwich.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson