dismember

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

Mr. Erdogan said the order to dismember Mr. Khashoggi came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, but avoided accusing the prince directly.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 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

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

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The French do not expect from the Macron leadership that it dismembers our overseas territories behind their backs," she said, describing the territories as "true levers of power, influence and economic development".

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

Fine takes on this king of all biases with admirable vigor, and it’s a pleasure — albeit a strenuous one — to follow the action as she dismembers the beast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

That distinction belongs to the Financial Stability Oversight Council—the beak with which Dodd-Frank dismembers its prey. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 7, 2014

And he digs a deeper hole by mangling the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, whose lyric he dismembers with bizarre changes of tone, volume and intonation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011

Surely no fate can be too bad for the man who dismembers books.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan

And so, like the dismembered Black Knight in that iconic fight scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” they comically cling to their mortally wounded impeachment scheme, proclaiming, “‘Tis but a scratch!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

Ghafoor’s connection to Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist who was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents in Turkey in 2018, has raised the profile of the case.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

In 1993, ABC aired a Saturday morning cartoon show, "Tales From the Cryptkeeper," that featured a somewhat softer approach to the morbid material: characters didn't die, and being dismembered was off-limits.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2022

In Turkey, Kemal Ataturk had built a modern European secular republic - a Turkish nation-state - after the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire had been defeated and dismembered in 1918.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022

He set out with his chivalry to drive from Northern Thrace the Bulgarian hordes, who had flocked down into the plains to profit by the plunder of the dismembered realm.

From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman

Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

During the war, a number of proposals for dismembering the empire had been considered.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

As Mr. Ipalensenda reached a fallen African rosewood tree that he was in the process of dismembering, he called out to his co-workers who were tending a nearby kiln.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

“Despite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the General Assembly from dismembering Nashville,” he said in making his announcement on Tuesday.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston