had mutilated
- past perfect of mutilate.
Example Sentences
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A childhood accident involving a mill at Celia’s family farm had mutilated her left hand, leaving all but her thumb and forefinger useless.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
As if he had mutilated the language in his fury—and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
To-day I discovered he had mutilated a third edition of The Tribune.
From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood
When the street statues of Hermes were mutilated, all the Athenians were frightened and furious; they thought that they should ALL be ruined because some one had mutilated a god's image, and so offended him.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter
But it was too late to speak of Berkley to Hallam now, too late to ask indulgence on the score of her friendship for a man who had mutilated it.
From Ailsa Paige by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
