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
On their first day as students at London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, or RADA, in 2007, Hizli remembered a teacher telling them “they were going to dismember us and put us back together.”
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
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
I’m pretty sure the only thing you could dismember is a sandwich.”
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Vocabulary lists containing dismember
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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Siddhartha
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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