Example Sentences

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Franny seemed intensely interested in the way Lane was dismembering his frogs’ legs.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

"Children, children!" said Mr. Kronborg nervously, looking up from the chicken he was dismembering.

From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert

I said as much to Dr. Fraser, who was dismembering a cold chicken with almost awful surgical dexterity.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin