Example Sentences

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Mangled pipes poured sewer water into what remained of the road.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Mangled boats and massive chunks of concrete docks still litter the coastline in Fort Myers, the county seat of Lee County, one of the nation’s most Republican-leaning counties.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2022

Mangled traffic signs stick out from the mud.

From Washington Times • Jul. 4, 2021

Mangled gates and broken walls and steel-reinforced columns holding up nothing.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2019

One came whose art men’s dread of are repressed: Mangled and writhing limb he lulled to rest, And stingless left the old Semitic curse; Him, too, for these blest gifts did Zeus amerce?

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing