lacerate

Example Sentences

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While large shards of plastic can lacerate organ walls, the smaller particles, known as microplastics, can be just as deleterious.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2023

New verbs entered the surf lexicon: shred, tear, lacerate.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

It’s a story that will lacerate your heart.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2019

Despite the carping of her critics, Clinton does in fact lacerate herself for losing.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2017

Those alternations of hope and fear, the vague unrest, the foolish, but no less terrible fits of jealousy that lacerate one's heart, only excite Michel's derision.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne