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
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
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
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
“Never! I couldn’t stand hearing you mangle it!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing mangle
Ghost
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