Example sentences for: mangled

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

  • 2. Don't criticize without offering a sensible alternative: A key reason for our mangled China policy is that China hawks endlessly indict U.S. policy without proposing their own remedy.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In fact, while its fondness for the most idiotic, juvenile humor knows no bounds, any strong emotion is taboo (unless you count horror at having your penis mangled)--that's part of the British influence, I guess.


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