Example Sentences

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The looming question is who, or what, might have dismembered this mastodon so long ago.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 26, 2017

Newer shows like “You’re the Worst” and “Catastrophe” have dismembered the romantic-comedy genre, arguing, in effect, that only suckers or idiots can truly fall in love.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 14, 2015

She would have dismembered Russia, as she has effectively done—at least temporarily—by the infamous Brest-Litovsk treaty.

From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges