mincer
Example Sentences
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Mancini might make a few personnel changes - he has to replace the injured Giorgio Chiellini, for starters - but we can be sure Italy are intent on putting Wales through a mincer.
From The Guardian
England, seven days later, were put through the mincer by South Africa.
From The Guardian
I don’t have a mincer for the meatloaf I yearn for; stuffed cabbage would lift my heart, but who has time for blanching each leaf?
From The New Yorker
In “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf described her intensely chopping liver with mincers.
From New York Times
“He went through the mincer,” Ms. Duignan added from the Tea House’s garden, a yard scattered with old toys and signs trumpeting Ms. Hodgetts’s culinary expertise.
From New York Times
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