How to Use mangled in a Sentence

mangled

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• There was a pile of mangled corpses, some wrapped in white cloth, by the entrance to the town.
  — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• The cars at the front of the Coromandel jump off their tracks and form a mangled pile.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• Trains inched past the mangled cars as crews repaired the tracks.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 June 2023
• The World Trade Center, rebuilt from a mangled hole in the ground?
  — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Workers toiled over the weekend to clear the wreck and restore the mangled tracks.
  — Sameer Yasir, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• Photos and videos from the site showed mangled metal strewn across the tracks.
  — Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
• Footage from the 7News helicopter showed the Jeep on its side and the mangled white Acura.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
• Barr watched as Owen's car was brought back to the trailer parked next to his, a mangled machine.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• The Creature is a healthy dose of self-love masquerading in a dead man’s mangled body.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• The pens where the birds are sometimes kept became mangled ruins of chain link fences.
  — Jesse Klein, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• At the time, the jury was watching a video that depicted the mangled school bus Saipov had struck.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2023
• His clip shows the mangled remains of buildings and debris strewn about rainy streets.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2024
• The pastor, badly mangled, lies next to the deacon, mother and child, both of whom were killed by shrapnel to the head.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• But the vessel – and all of its contents – still sit in the middle of the channel, its bow draped with massive pieces of the mangled steel bridge.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Photos showed the silver car with a badly mangled roof and the windshield crushed flat.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• Another squad of ten poor, mangled fellows were taken in and placed on sacks of straw in the aisles.
  — Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Rescuers in the southern city of Hatay smiled and took pictures as the boy emerged from the wrecked concrete and mangled metal.
  — Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Cut to Liz’s mangled, dead body slumped over, her stomach cut open, and the liver beside her amid pools of blood.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 25 June 2024
• Moving the 947-foot-long Dali is a complex and risky task, given that the ship was pinned in place by thousands of tons of mangled steel.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 20 May 2024
• The clips show reporters in blue press vests surveying a mass of mangled wires and concrete.
  — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The equally chilling shot of a Clicker near the end of the trailer shows the VFX team also nailed that fungus-mangled look.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
• No one was injured when about 50 cars derailed in a fiery, mangled mess on the outskirts of East Palestine on Feb. 3.
  — Patrick Orsagos, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• The mangled and charred wreckage of the truck could be seen being hauled away Monday, as crews with heavy equipment worked in the rubble of the collapse.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 13 June 2023
• The force of the water shredded some homes, mangled trucks and clogged the remaining buildings with mud and debris.
  — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• Ships will be unable to enter or exit the port until the mangled heap of steel debris from the bridge is cleared from the channel.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• In its shadow are the mangled remnants of a folding table.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• There’s a mangled, bloody skeleton with a shrunken head dangling from the Spring Street parking deck.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Photos show a mangled and burned out building with the bar’s metal sign still sitting atop the caved in patio roof.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• But as of midday, utility poles and wires were still draped at odd angles across the streets, pulled down by mangled trees.
  — Jeff Amy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024
• The difference very well could be the video footage, which shows the Key Bridge dropping span by span into the river, mere moments after it was struck: a proud highway one second and a mangled wreck the next.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024