How to Use mutilation in a Sentence

mutilation

noun

• Fox News has been on the cattle mutilation beat for a while.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
• He was charged with homicide and mutilation of a dead body.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
• Even body horror buffs will shiver at the scenes of mutilation and murder in the woods.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• The remains of the village’s women and children show signs of mutilation.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2021
• Descriptions of mutilation and murder are blunt, but no blunter than the crimes.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2021
• The bill would have stopped child mutilation, and prevented men from playing in women’s sports.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• There appears to have been a large number of cow mutilations across the U.S. in the 1970s, according to multiple media reports at the time.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• This would often take the form of ritual mutilation, carried out by the rulers on behalf of their people.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
• The country is still reeling from the rape, mutilation, and murder of more than 1,000 civilians by Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of the state of Israel and its Jews.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Because there are so many moving parts, his mutilation of those four syllables requires five actors to start their scenes from the top each time.
  — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
• Travelers trying to make it through have reported robberies, corpses, mutilations and rape in the dense forest along the route.
  — Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• In this case, the punishment was not labor or mutilation, but isolation and stagnation: a body left alone to rot.
  — Kristin Collier, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2021
• Montalvo and Boone were charged with arson and mutilation of human remains in the Oct. 17 death of Mykaella Sharlman, 25.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 June 2023
• Is this connected to the recent spate of cattle mutilations?
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• Barring bloodletting and clothes-rending and ashes on the head, a person in mourning has to undergo a mutilation of some kind.
  — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• There are also culinary delights that aren’t for the faint of stomach, as well as a sprinkle of mutilations and graphic violence that might upset the squeamish.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 May 2024
• The Haaretz report threw doubt on the assertions of genital mutilation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
• Border police have had violent run-ins with members, and the thought of a potential border wall is seen as a travesty here – a mutilation of the land itself.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 24 June 2024
• The history of lynching in the United States is in part a history of public spectacle, in which the mutilation and murder of Black men brought out white crowds to stare, cheer and take photographs.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
• But, murder and mutilation aside, most everything that’s done or said is funny — very funny.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• From the front, the person is drooling, menacing-looking and has zombie-movie-style facial mutilation.
  — USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• Friedman dismissed the mutilation charges and removed four defendants from the case, which sparked outcry and triggered a new Michigan law banning FGM.
  — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• But the mutilations continue, as does the pressure to accept them as an act of cultural conformity.
  — Qanta A. Ahmed, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
• Trump seemed unaware and shocked by the grisly details and surprised that the family had yet to have a funeral because of the horrific mutilation of Guillen’s remains.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 31 July 2020
• Kyle was in custody, charged with kidnapping and mutilation.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• Latunski pleaded guilty as charged to mutilation of a body and to open murder, which encompasses murder in the first and second degree.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
• The core truth is that the genocidal frenzy of killing, rape, torture, kidnapping, and mutilation that Hamas launched in Israel on Oct. 7 were crimes of monstrous evil that every American should stand against.
  — Eli M. Rosenbaum, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
• The first half of the novel affords a devastating look at the death, mutilation and overall destruction witnessed every day by these valiant women.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Anderson, 33, pleaded not guilty in April to charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson in the death of Sade Carleena Robinson, 19.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2024
• The clerics believe that the practice would not be considered mutilation if done properly.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024