How to Use mangled in a Sentence
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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
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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
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Trains inched past the mangled cars as crews repaired the tracks.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 6 June 2023
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The World Trade Center, rebuilt from a mangled hole in the ground?
—Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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Workers toiled over the weekend to clear the wreck and restore the mangled tracks.
—Sameer Yasir, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
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Photos and videos from the site showed mangled metal strewn across the tracks.
—Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
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Footage from the 7News helicopter showed the Jeep on its side and the mangled white Acura.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
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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
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The Creature is a healthy dose of self-love masquerading in a dead man’s mangled body.
—Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
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The pens where the birds are sometimes kept became mangled ruins of chain link fences.
—Jesse Klein, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
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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
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His clip shows the mangled remains of buildings and debris strewn about rainy streets.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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Photos showed the silver car with a badly mangled roof and the windshield crushed flat.
—TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The clips show reporters in blue press vests surveying a mass of mangled wires and concrete.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In its shadow are the mangled remnants of a folding table.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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There’s a mangled, bloody skeleton with a shrunken head dangling from the Spring Street parking deck.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
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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
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Emergency crews pulled the woman from a mangled wreck of a single-engine Cessna 172, according to the Courant.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024
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Other images posted online show the mangled remains of the aircraft.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
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