How to Use vivisection in a Sentence

vivisection

noun

• In the register of his voice, the calm vivisection of British actions can mount by degrees into the more insistent tones of a man who has truth on his side.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• The man’s fate and the woman’s are said to have been sealed by a secret ritual; vivisection is supposed to be the man’s ultimate act of love toward her.
  — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
• The jam lab researchers determine how the missile tracks its targets, and any new methods are revealed by this electronic vivisection.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
• Anti-vivisection activists found what may have seemed to be the real-life equivalent of Victor Frankenstein in scientists like Claude Bernard.
  — Emily Anthes, Slate Magazine, 18 Jan. 2017
• Only Charles’s second wife, Camilla, whom Brown depicts as horse-y and unflappable, escapes royal vivisection.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• Other readers will hear in this vivisection of a dysfunctional family a Franzenesque attention to the great forces pulsing through American culture.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• His vivisection of the opposition and ruthless exercise of power have put him in position to win re-election, despite a record of governance that would destroy most presidents.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Her father had been a madman who practiced vivisection on human beings; the cruel scientist’s mistress — and Harriet’s mother — was a partly black Creole, who had inherited a taste for blood from the bite of a vampire bat.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• The dilution of what constitutes real danger manifests in everything from far-right and far-left extremists engaging in violent and theatrical clashes to the vivisection of individuals’ social-media accounts in search of sins against propriety.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 25 July 2019
• Despite committing serious, egregious crimes against humanity, including vivisection, members of the unit were only lightly punished by the Allies, reportedly in exchange for research data.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
• Bernard inherited his mentor’s reverence for the experimental method and unapologetic reliance on vivisection.
  — Emily Anthes, Slate Magazine, 18 Jan. 2017

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