mutilate

Example Sentences

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Cassandra Pybus says there is no doubt that Crowther did mutilate Lanne, citing letters he wrote.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

“We have concluded on the basis of present evidence that Nosenko was dispatched to the West to mutilate counterintelligence leads which had been revealed by Golitsyn,” Angleton said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2023

One particular law makes it a felony for someone in possession of government records to willfully mutilate, obliterate or destroy them.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2022

There's times where you don't have to dissect a joke or mutilate a joke or ruin the joke in order to make it clear.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2022

I don’t know, I guess I always thought I’d turn out okay, no matter how badly my many schools tried to mutilate me.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi