Example sentences for: mangled

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

  • The Farrelly brothers' latest slapstick is said to hark back to the screwball romances of the 1940s: The Dumb & Dumber directors temper their repulsive humor--which includes gags about a mangled penis and the mentally retarded--with a touching love story.

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

  • 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.

  • Colleges still pay for his slurred, mangled "speeches."

  • Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world.


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