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Example sentences for "lacerated"

Lexicographically close words:
lac; lace; laced; lacelike; lacerate; lacerating; laceration; lacerations; lacerum; laces
  1. We pulled off our old boots and bathed our lacerated feet in the water, and quenched the tormenting thirst caused by the indigestible hard corn, which was now our only nourishment.

  2. One bullet struck the picket under my thigh, and so close that the splinters lacerated my flesh, and as my feet struck the ground on the outside, I said to Mark, 'I am hit.

  3. It was torn and lacerated with shell holes.

  4. His feet had been lacerated by the stones and plants so that he could walk only with difficulty, and his body was chilled by his long immersion in the cold waters of the river.

  5. On, on, sped the gallant scout, although his feet were cruelly lacerated by the stones and shrubs.

  6. But it was done at the cost of torn breeches and lacerated legs, and when he stood up in the room beyond he was bleeding freely from the wounds which the jagged edges of the wood had dealt him.

  7. They tore at the planks with desperate, lacerated hands.

  8. Lopez now endeavored to reach a plain near San Cristobal, but his men were worn out, their clothes torn, their flesh bruised and bleeding, and their feet lacerated so that they could hardly walk.

  9. The free colored people, after having been first lacerated by the lash, were then hurried to the scaffold and those only escaped with life who had gold enough to appease the fury of their executioners.

  10. Etym: Defn: That can be lacerated or torn.

  11. There was a tender melancholy in the kind creature's face that seemed to mark the lacerated feelings of intense affection.

  12. I grieve to say that the expressive features of Professor Muff were much scratched and lacerated by the injured lady; and that Professor Nogo, besides sustaining several severe bites, has lost some handfuls of hair from the same cause.

  13. Is there a frequenter of our theatres on a first night whose musical sensibilities have not been lacerated by the noise and tumult incidental to a crowded house?

  14. Panting, they reached the top, where they rested a moment and wiped the blood from their lacerated fingertips.

  15. He tasted blood in his mouth and felt several broken teeth with his lacerated tongue.

  16. When that happened Green could not keep from breaking out into a sweat, for the dog had twice bitten him, playfully, so to speak, and severely lacerated his calf.

  17. In his efforts to escape he had bitten the trap until he had broken his teeth and lacerated his gums, so that his appearance was hideous in the extreme.

  18. One toss of its head, however, sent Crusoe high into the air; but it accomplished this feat at the expense of its nose, which was torn and lacerated by the dog's teeth.

  19. Will not the shades of the departed victims haunt him in his midnight slumbers, and, pointing to their lacerated bodies, say, these still remain unavenged?

  20. In this immoveable posture, human beings, Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotchmen, have had their flesh lacerated for more than half an hour!

  21. Tolstoi found his audience chiefly among the intelligence, and Dostoiewsky of the lacerated heart was the object of the love and devotion of the new generation.

  22. Eliza forgot at the moment that her words were calculated to wound the already deeply lacerated heart of Lady Ravensworth;—else not for a moment—criminal as Adeline was—would those words have escaped her tongue.

  23. And each word that the vindictive woman uttered, fell like a drop of molten lead upon the already lacerated heart of the unfortunate Adeline.

  24. But his fingers were cut and lacerated with the process: he, however, assuaged the pain by greasing the flesh with the remainder of the gruel left in his bowl.

  25. Wallace to himself, as his eyes pursued the agile footsteps of the young chieftain; "no conquering affection has yet thrown open thy heart; no deadly injury hath lacerated it with wounds incurable.

  26. But the galaxy streams with blood; the bugle of death is alone heard; and thy lacerated breast heaves in vain against the hoofs of opposing squadrons.

  27. The tender heart of the Sultan of Turkey must not to-day be lacerated with even suggestion that there is more mercy under the cross than under his own blood-red crescent.

  28. Many outwardly renounced Christianity as the sight of the prolonged tortures lacerated their hearts and smote them with weakness.

  29. Her lacerated back was sufficient evidence how cruelly she had been punished.

  30. They therefore in frequent instances lacerated their flesh, and submitted to incredible hardships.

  31. Nor does the thought of murder deter her, if her rites require the living blood, first spurting from the lacerated throat.

  32. A native recovers from thirteen lacerated wounds and two on the head.

  33. Besides these accidents, one man recovered from thirteen lacerated wounds, and another was deprived of his ear and cheek by the blow of a wounded tiger's paw.

  34. I had given him up my bed because it was a broad one, and so most convenient for resting his lacerated arms.

  35. It was the lacerated thigh of a grenadier, whose flesh had been torn off by a hand-grenade.

  36. I will make him feel," said the enraged officer; so ordering a bowl of brine to be brought to him, he sprinkled it on the lacerated flesh of the boy between every lash.

  37. The patriarchs rent their garments in token of the misery that lacerated their souls: then rags and tatters were ennobled by sorrow--there was a deep sentiment in sackcloth and ashes.

  38. Some sharp substance--a nail or a piece of glass or flint--had evidently lacerated his right foot, for blood was oozing from the broken heel of his boot on to the floor.

  39. As they worked, the thorns of the rose trees caught and tore their clothing and lacerated the flesh of their half-frozen hands.

  40. And through the distraction which she endures on account of the ordinary love of the material and of things intelligible, she feels herself lacerated and mangled, so that at last she is forced to yield to the more vigorous impulse.

  41. When clothed he went home a bruised and lacerated man.

  42. He trusts to their protection to save him from falling trees and flying limbs, although he is often lacerated and bruised, jambed and torn by them.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacerated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afflicted; aggravated; agonized; broken; burst; busted; clawed; cleft; cloven; cracked; crucified; cut; damaged; dentate; distressed; embittered; harmed; harrowed; hurt; hurting; impaired; imperfect; incised; indented; injured; irritated; jagged; lacerated; mangled; martyred; mutilated; nicked; notched; pained; quartered; racked; ragged; rent; ruptured; scalded; scalloped; scorched; scored; serrate; severed; shattered; shredded; slashed; slit; smashed; split; sprung; suffering; tattered; toothed; tormented; torn; tortured; twisted; weakened; worse; worsened; wounded; wrung