mutilate

Example Sentences

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A photographer who witnessed the aftermath of a massive Brazilian police operation in Rio de Janeiro has told the BBC of how residents came back with mutilated bodies of those who had died.

From BBC

He exhumed corpses from graveyards in Wisconsin in the 1950s and admitted to killing at least two women whose bodies he then mutilated.

From Los Angeles Times

Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, who smuggled classified documents out of the National Archives and mutilated some of them, also received two years of probation and a fine.

From Salon

They also found human skulls fashioned into soup bowls; lampshades and costumes made from human skin; and mutilated female body parts, among other nightmare fuel.

From Los Angeles Times

Khalusha was the prime suspect in the murder of more than 40 women whose mutilated bodies were discovered in a disused quarry that became a dumpsite in the capital, Nairobi.

From BBC