How to Use mutilate in a Sentence

mutilate

verb
Definition of mutilatenext
Synonyms for mutilatenext
  • He was found in a river mutilated and shot in the head.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Be kind to the trees, and refrain from setting up hammocks here, which can mutilate the trees’ bark.
    — Jill K. Robinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The young girl’s mutilated body was later found in a creek.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The killers dragged Rotberg’s body to the other side of the border, where it was found mutilated, its eyes poked out.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
  • One mother’s body was found charred, tied, dragged to a boat and mutilated.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • All of the victims had been ambushed and mutilated; many had their throats ripped out.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2020
  • In the process, the team had mutilated her neck with syringes in attempts to draw blood samples.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The sign marking the place where 14-year-old Emmett’s mutilated body was found has been shot at — again.
    — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 6 Aug. 2018
  • This isn't the first time cattle have been found mutilated.
    — CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The lower half of his body was mutilated, the driver’s door ripped open, and the reporter lay waiting for help.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The genitals of some men who had been killed were mutilated as well.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • She’d been strangled, her left breast sliced away and her body mutilated by cuts.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • The boy was abducted and beaten by white men, who gouged out an eye, shot him in the head, mutilated his corpse and dumped the body in a river.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2017
  • In addition to the felony murder charges, Boyce and Spencer are charged with arson and mutilating a corpse, both as a party to the crime.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2017
  • Laura: To me, the question is always what would be not the motivation for the aliens to mutilate the cattle?
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • In the latter case, police suggest the body may have been mutilated by wildlife.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Becnel also held a knife to a dog and threatened to mutilate it, the report stated.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • He's seen colleagues mutilated, their hands and arms cut, their eyes plucked out for failing to pay these armed groups their share.
    — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • He’d been shot and mutilated in a manner that a cousin said reminded her of a horror movie.
    — Brittany Morris, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Mosques were destroyed, and Muslims were beaten to death in the streets and their bodies mutilated.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • He was so mutilated in the blast that his family was permitted to see him only from the knees down as a farewell.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • The father’s dog, a 75 pound Pitbull mix, was found mutilated in a bedroom.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Her body was found in the sea, mutilated, almost 12 days later.
    — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Her body at that point was partly naked, and her exposed breasts appeared to have been mutilated.
    — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Soldiers raped his 13-year-old sister Khadiza; mobs of Rakhines armed with swords mutilated her body.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Emmett Till’s mutilated body would be on display for all to see.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • The agents watch teenagers self-mutilating and girls recounting rape.
    — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 19 May 2018
  • In one video, fighters appear to mutilate the corpse of a female Kurdish fighter.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Badly mutilated by Homelander’s son at the end of season two, Stormfront takes her own life in season three, episode two.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Killing for lies has generational consequences for Russia, even beyond the tens of thousands of dead and mutilated young citizens.
    — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

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