How to Use disembowel in a Sentence

disembowel

verb

• The fierce cat uses its claws to disembowel its prey.
• The torso has been severed at the waist and disemboweled.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2018
• Halfway under the frame lay the family’s small dog, disemboweled by the blows of the log.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• On the other hand, a dog owner might watch in horror as a wolf disemboweled his pet in front of his eyes.
  — J.b. MacKinnon, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2017
• That is small consolation when your steers are disemboweled or your dog torn to pieces.
  — Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
• Simple: By leaping on its back and biting the neck until the animal chokes out and falls over, at which time the wolverine will start disemboweling the prey.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 2 June 2015
• The legend says these spiders position themselves under the belly of a camel, leap into the air, slice open the abdomen, disembowel it and eat the stomach while the camel is still alive.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2023
• In Jurassic Park, Alan Grant tells an annoying child that the dinosaurs used their claws to disembowel their prey with slashing motions.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2011
• In 2007 a zookeeper in Argentina died after she was disemboweled by a captive giant anteater, and since then two hunters have met similar fates in the wild.
  — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2018
• The soldiers fired three bullets into Mr. Tolbert, then gouged out his right eye and, finally, disemboweled him.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2017
• But that’s a little like disemboweling a live sheep in July and interpreting its viscera to foretell that the weather will turn cold.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
• Johnnie Ervin, who used a walker, had been stabbed 12 times and disemboweled, prosecutors said.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• Nailah Pettigen was dead, appeared to have been disemboweled, had an incision from her neck to her stomach, her intestines were spilled out onto the ground and her bed was completely soaked through with blood, Gaches said.
  — Bay City News, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
• Since she’s played by Frances McDormand, the most famous face in the cast and an actor who could disembowel the patriarchy in her sleep, the abruptness of her departure feels particularly pointed.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Fidel Lopez, the Sunrise man who admitted disemboweling his girlfriend in a drunken rage in 2015, would be willing to plead guilty to avoid execution, his lawyer said in court Friday.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 June 2017
• The Tollund Man was almost certainly hanged, while others appear to have been disemboweled, decapitated or bled from the throat.
  — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• One officer was killed and disemboweled; two others were badly injured.
  — Longreads, 5 Apr. 2018
• In Gorongosa, the dogs target bushbuck, impala and waterbuck, surrounding the prey, grabbing at legs, nose and hindquarters, disemboweling it from below.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• But the movie’s conclusion is unforgettable as Dani determines that the unfaithful Christian be offered up as a human sacrifice, which results in him being burned to death while trapped in the body of a disemboweled bear.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 5 July 2019
• Later, Matt marveled at the vastness and bustle of the Tsukiji Fish Market — and was grimly fascinated watching a live eel being disemboweled.
  — Andrew Bender, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
• Seattle had just disemboweled the 49ers on national television, a loss that would topple whatever remained of the 49ers’ resurgence under Harbaugh.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• Sometimes, especially unlucky toads are still alive when these serpents disembowel them, Henrik Bringsøe, an amateur herpetologist from Denmark and the first author of the new study, writes in a statement.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2020
• Also nobody gets stabbed, decapitated, disemboweled, impaled, poisoned, burned alive, blown into a million little pieces or shoved out the Moon Door.
  — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 13 July 2017
• Fortunately no one resembles a tasty gazelle antelope, which cheetahs — who rule as earth’s fastest mammals — race down, viciously bite in the neck to suffocate and bloodily disembowel to devour.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2019
• Fortunately no one resembles a tasty gazelle antelope, which cheetahs — who rule as Earth’s fastest mammals — race down, viciously bite in the neck to suffocate and bloodily disembowel to devour.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2020
• The bear eventually left, but not before nearly disemboweling him.
  — Ryan Sabalow and Ed Fletcher, sacbee, 16 Mar. 2018
• Nonetheless, everyone stays back from her long and powerful legs, which can deliver a lion-disemboweling kick.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2020
• Kathy Kraninger, Mulvaney’s successor, continued his effort to disembowel the agency.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• A state appeals court is considering arguments from lawyers for Fidel Lopez — the Sunrise man accused of disemboweling his girlfriend in 2015 — that challenge his indictment, and the pending decision will affect other cases.
  — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• In this ghoulish massacre, witnesses reported crushed babies, disembowelled pregnant women and the burning of entire families.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017

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