dismembered
Example Sentences
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Now the dismembered statue has become a symbol of a city - and a nation - struggling to reckon with its darkest chapters.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
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
No toes or feet were dismembered in the celebration.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
“It started very early,” he said, producing as evidence a faded, dismembered copy of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he received as a teenager in school and still carries in his wallet.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
The fowl is dismembered with a jack-knife in a twinkling, and shared.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
