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

For it was not the enemy, but the innocent earth we had mutilated, stamping an armed heel into its smiling and upturned face.

From The Hidden Children by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

This time he had mutilated a critique of an Ibsensite drama.

From The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective by Tracy, Louis

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)