How to Use mangle in a Sentence

mangle

verb
Definition of manglenext
Synonyms for manglenext
  • Clothes were charred and torn; limbs appeared to be mangled.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • VIPs sometimes mangle the name, and at times, higher-ups in the same offices aren’t on the same page.
    — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Some have been mangled in the washing machine or burned in the dryer.
    — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • While walking across a rail line with a load of steel pipes, he was struck by a train and one of his legs was mangled.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Limbs sometimes bend in ways that would mangle your own legs.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2021
  • The tail strike accident mangled the bottom half of the bulkhead.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • To mangle an idiom: Why expose a gift horse with your mouth?
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Collisions mangled the frames of four chairs, and Wade called timeout.
    — Matt Higgins Jalen Wright, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But nobody is calm when a 50-pound catfish is mangling their hand.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
  • The balloon was shredded, the basket was mangled and Sullivan was hooked on the sport.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Otherwise, the bike will fall onto your leg and mangle your flesh.
    — Emma Brewer, The New Yorker, 22 June 2021
  • Many, to mangle Shakespeare, are not born to chair but have chairing thrust upon them.
    — Kevin J.h. Dettmar, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The powerful blast reduced the church to rubble, mangling cars in the parking lot and stopping clocks.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Did Abrams mangle any of Steven Spielberg's Super 8 films?
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • Photos from the scene show the front of the restaurant mangled and debris on the ground while emergency services bring people out of the building.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Her left leg — mangled in the airstrike that killed her brother, sister and mother — was held in a cast buttressed by metal joints and rods.
    — Marc Smith, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • On Sunday, a few shattered carriages, mangled and overturned, were the only remnants of the tragedy.
    — Krutika Pathi, Sheikh Saaliq and Ashok Sharma, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • All day long, Siri reads out my text messages through the AirPods wedged into my ears —and mangles my name into Sa-hul.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
  • The tornado also mangled a cotton warehouse and ripped the steeple off a Baptist church.
    — Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The explosion mangled the overhead door to the parking garage so badly that firefighters had to pry it open and prop it up with wooden beams.
    — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • As fires continue to mangle the parched earth, smoke carried by the upper level air will cover most of the central US, with waves brought as far as the East Coast through the weekend.
    — Hannah Gard and Judson Jones, CNN, 15 July 2021
  • Who can afford to mangle a dainty snapper fillet or spend time scrubbing away crisped rice?
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Giant pumps that send water south through aqueducts mangle the critters or draw them into the grasp of lurking predators.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • And there has been speculation that the high fronts of these vehicles are more likely to mangle a pedestrian.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Cowboy boots are the original work boot, built to withstand the outdoors, last for years, and stay comfortable enough that your feet aren’t mangled after a day of wearing them.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The playing’s the thing, to mangle that other famous quote vehicle, wherein to catch their consciousness.
    — Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
  • That said, old tropes die hard, and this one — the hapless son who’s been emotionally mangled by a monster mother — has been entrenched in movies and television for close to 75 years.
    — Mark Harris Keita Morimoto, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Photos of the wreck show the PT Cruiser mangled almost beyond recognition, with its front end completely crumped.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Violin, double bass, and a whole lot of synthesizers and guitar pedals and samplers and things which are great for mangling sounds.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In Valdosta, Idalia’s fierce winds uprooted trees and sent rain flying sideways, toppling a large tree onto a house and mangling awning.
    — Terry Spencer, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023

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