Example sentences for: eviscerated

How can you use “eviscerated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bobbie Ann Mason claims, "[W]e eviscerated the American government because a middle-aged man dallied with a young, willing woman and then tried to hush it up."

  • After three days fixation the fetuses were stained for bone and cartilage as described previously [ 24 ] . Briefly, the fetuses were eviscerated and skinned.

  • Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?

  • A "charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair" (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.

  • Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut(s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery.


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