dismembered

Example Sentences

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“There he tinkered with dismembered clocks and toasters, and the pathos of dismantled gears, springs and wires infected him with a tenderness for mechanisms that spill their guts for all the world to see.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2024

A dark cloud hangs over the whole enterprise, with the perils of the sea and forbidden love illustrated by long, discordant drones and dismembered sounds.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023

No toes or feet were dismembered in the celebration.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The fowl is dismembered with a jack-knife in a twinkling, and shared.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)