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

In highly sensitive animals a mere prick on the skin can be proved to affect the beating of the heart; but you may lacerate a reptile without sensibly affecting its pulse.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.