Example sentences for: mutilated

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  • In the course of Darger's story--titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion --the sisters (the Vivian Girls) manage to escape from the men (the Glandelinians) time and time again, but countless less fortunate girl-slaves are spectacularly mutilated and slaughtered along the way.

  • The 15 ethnic-Albanian "rebels" allegedly shot Friday in Kosovo by Serbian forces turned out to be 45 massacred civilians, many of whose mutilated bodies were discarded in a mass grave.

  • Gergen wonders whether Americans have the stomach for war; people aren't ready for "mutilated children and bombed-out hospitals," he predicts.

  • The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.

  • Culturebox has not read Grass' 1987 novel The Rat , but Ian Buruma has described it as "tales of the end of mankind, with the German chancellor riding through the forest in which concentration-camp victims disguised as mutilated fairy-tale characters were roaming around the poisoned trees."


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