mangle
Example Sentences
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If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
But whether she uses the term “African American woman” or “Black woman,” machine distortions that mangle facial features and hair textures occur at high rates.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023
Anthony Seward was 20 when his hand was crushed in an industrial mangle - an injury that required multiple surgeries, including having the hand sewn into his abdomen to help it heal.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023
To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.
From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2023
It wasn’t why she’d come, for one thing, but even if it was, it was unthinkable that she should mangle this dream.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing mangle
Ghost
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