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At length I saw all our Italian women, and my mother herself, torn, mangled, massacred, by the monsters who disputed over them.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mangle
 v.  cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; tear in cutting
Classic Sentence:
1  On being shown her chamber, she was so dreadfully sensible of its comforts as to suggest the inference that she would have preferred to pass the night on the mangle in the laundry.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
2  The cotton was mangled and trampled where cavalry and infantry, forced off the narrow road by the artillery, had marched through the green bushes, grinding them into the earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  Bonnie, who had watched from the window impatiently all afternoon, anxious to display a mangled collection of beetles and roaches to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about fourteen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
8  The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
9  With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
10  We stood with bitter hearts on either side of the mangled body, overwhelmed by this sudden and irrevocable disaster which had brought all our long and weary labours to so piteous an end.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
11  The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
12  At length I saw all our Italian women, and my mother herself, torn, mangled, massacred, by the monsters who disputed over them.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
13  On an average, the tunneling cost a life a day and several manglings; it was seldom, however, that more than a dozen or two men heard of any one accident.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  After La Trobe had been excruciated by the Rector's interpretation, by the maulings and the manglings of the actors.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
Example Sentence:
1  The explosions kill them and mangle bodies so badly.
2  His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition.
3  After the accident we tried to identify the victims, but the bodies were too hadly mangled to be recognized.
4  I could hardly recognize the body of the driver, as it had been badly mangled up in the accident.