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Example sentences for "mangled"

Lexicographically close words:
manger; mangers; mangia; mangiare; mangle; mangling; mango; mangoe; mangoes; mangold
  1. He'd come to in the daylight to see Harding lying there, mangled and twisted, with his throat torn.

  2. This time, it was in a drunken auto accident that seemed to be none of his fault, but left his body a mangled wreck.

  3. The British swarmed into the tavern, mangled the bodies of the two old men with bayonet thrusts, and scattered their brains around the room.

  4. Agnes was not with him at the moment, but showed her love by running as fast as she could and digging away the bricks with her own hands, finding him badly mangled but alive.

  5. A falling tree or limb, a mis-step on the river, a faulty cable, a weakened trestle; each may mean a still and mangled form.

  6. The horror and fear, grief and fury, with which these men looked upon the mangled remains of friends and relatives, set language at defiance.

  7. They slitted them with their knives, and mangled them in various ways.

  8. At the two places of ambuscade, about seventy dead bodies were counted, naked, scalpless, and so horribly mangled that many of them could not be recognized.

  9. To see every Day dead Bodies floating down the River, mangled and disfigured?

  10. The bodies of men, women, and children, mangled with outrageous brutality, lay scattered about the yard; and the murderers were gone.

  11. For every hair on old Henry's mangled head, said he, an Iroquois should spit out his death-yell.

  12. And mark the grave so that one day, please God, we may remove his mangled remains to a friendlier place than Tryon has proven for me and mine.

  13. On the 24th of February following, the mangled remains were enclosed in an oak coffin, and buried about eight feet deep, close to the north side of the north-east pillar, which formerly assisted to support the Abbey belfry.

  14. He left that to whomsoever it might chance to fall--a mangled corpse!

  15. His charger galloped past the troop without its rider; its trappings and saddle were covered with blood; while the savages bore off the mangled body of their victim, brandishing his sword on the top of the hill as they retreated.

  16. It was the stern post of a mangled vessel, and across it, in white letters on a black ground, was printed "The Slapping Sal.

  17. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honor of the four yards of bunting that flapped from their gaffs.

  18. I see them bear my husband's mangled corpse towards me.

  19. In five minutes every man was dead, and the squaws were stripping the mangled and bleeding forms.

  20. We straightened the mangled form of the dead, and covered the body with a blanket.

  21. And do you want me to tell you how that mangled little mass killed her mother?

  22. The long convoy was moving more swiftly now; the air trembled with the cries of the mangled or the hoarse groans of the dying.

  23. He thought of Lorraine, of the marquis lying mangled and dead in the forest beside the fragments of his balloon.

  24. But little Alixe rose, still crying, and followed the captain to the stables, where a dozen mangled soldiers lay in the straw and hay.

  25. The mangled remains were carried in procession to the house of the Jesuits in the Savoy; and during a few hours the fear and rage of the populace were scarcely less violent than on the day when Godfrey was borne to his grave.

  26. Think how many of your best soldiers will be crushed and mangled in the assault,--be merciful!

  27. Little did Eckhardt care how many he mangled and maimed under the hoofs of his iron-shod charger.

  28. The atrocious woman, in the paroxysm of her wrath, not content with murdering her victim, literally mangled her face, and broke her breast bone.

  29. His mangled body sank out of sight, and only his warm, red blood marked the place where he had stood.

  30. Wounded men dragged themselves across the open space, meeting, rearing their bodies like mangled snakes, to fight, the Republicans with their bayonets, and the Chouans with their knives.

  31. And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?

  32. Others were put to death by the tomahawk, and left shockingly mangled in the highway.

  33. It was designed, it seems, to spare the minister of the place, as Maulet wanted him as his own prisoner; but he was found among the mangled dead, and his papers burned.

  34. Mr. Oldham's corse was found on board, the head split and the body mangled in a barbarous manner.

  35. At every discharge, those vessels shook as if smitten by a rock--the planks were ripped up, the splinters hurled through the air, and the decks strewed with mangled forms.

  36. Would you have men eat while the bodies of those whom Hector son of Priam slew are still lying mangled upon the plain?


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.