mangle
Example Sentences
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Then I mangle a “merci” and step between the tables, each crowded with young tech workers speaking in euphonic blends of French and English, to a stool by the window overlooking the crowded street.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
The downtown area of Trumann on Sunday morning was still a mangle of downed power lines, shattered glass and damaged cars strewn about as if they were children’s toys.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2021
Ms Bowler said the ring had had "a charmed life" and had been damaged going through a mangle, but it was not expensive jewellery that caught her mother's eye.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2021
To mangle the words of Bob Dylan, “The game times they are a-changin’.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2020
Sailing away in his imagination from the daily mangle of ship-breaking life.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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