lacerate

Example Sentences

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This type of semi-automatic weapon was used in the recent Nashville school shooting, and are known to be especially deadly because of their ability to lacerate organs.

From Salon

The most lacerating cry from the heart may come on the opening pages, with Bering’s final email, sent as she prepared to face Israeli guns:

From Los Angeles Times

In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., was reprimanded by fellow Republicans and lacerated by Democrats for shouting “you lie” at Obama when he spoke to Congress about his health care plan.

From Washington Times

If hypothermia was not going to kill him, maybe a lacerated spleen or punctured lung could.

From BBC

“And I kept running into it and lacerating myself.”

From New York Times