Example Sentences

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Such gaps are not abstract — they represent real human lives that are lost or mangled.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

"Sitting in a shelter for 16 hours is simply unrealistic," Averina says, as gym staff emerge from the destroyed building with whatever objects they have managed to salvage from the rubble and mangled metal inside.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Witnesses posted video of the mangled cherry-red Ferarri, engulfed in flames, on the mountain road.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

The hospital room around me disappears, and I am immersed in a field of mangled ghost code.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu