mangle
Example Sentences
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Such gaps are not abstract — they represent real human lives that are lost or mangled.
From Salon
On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.
From Los Angeles Times
His right hand is worse than the left, mangled into a knot.
From Literature
Coal twisted, trying to get loose, but only managed to get his pants further mangled.
From Literature
"Sitting in a shelter for 16 hours is simply unrealistic," Averina says, as gym staff emerge from the destroyed building with whatever objects they have managed to salvage from the rubble and mangled metal inside.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
