Example Sentences

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As Lebanon marks the 47th anniversary of the start of the war on Wednesday, Ghassan's daughter and other relatives of those killed in the blast are fighting government plans to demolish the disembowelled silos.

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2022

Hill sides were strewn with debris and dotted by houses disembowelled by the storms powerful winds.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2017

It is disembowelled without the hide being taken off, and, since there can be no hide, there can be no quarry.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I can give him up my own bedroom, and sleep myself in an old harpsichord, which I bought cheap at a sale, and disembowelled into a species of deceptive bed.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 by Various

The large easy chair in the sitting room was almost disembowelled, and springs showed through the sofa, except in the middle, where there was a cavernous depression.

From Old Rose and Silver by Reed, Myrtle