Example sentences for: mangled

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

  • The mags share several identical images (starving North Koreans, Hale-Bopp, Evander Holyfield's mangled ear).

  • I swam in the sea there, among the mangled steel.

  • Further to “Do Mistake--Learn Better” [XV,1]: During the Vietnamese conflict, the country was filled with mangled English-Vietnamese-English translations, especially in correspondence between assorted offices of the two nations.

  • And of mangled passages like that--now translated with too much freedom, now too literally--is to cover García Márquez's text with a thin, almost invisible varnish of strangeness, which is exactly what the author never meant to have happen.

  • This occurs when a line or more from the original text is unintentionally skipped altogether, resulting in an incomprehensible, mangled style.


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