Example sentences for: mutilation

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

  • A corpse is discovered in a grotesque state of mutilation, then the scene shifts to an autopsy room where skulls are popped off and innards held up for inspection.

  • Egypt's supreme court upheld a ban on female genital mutilation . The country's health minister banned the practice (removal of the clitoris and sometimes the labia, often by family members using razors or knives) in 1996.

  • A photo essay vividly depicts the brutal rite of genital mutilation in Uganda.

  • Traditionalists went to court, but the court rejected their argument that Islamic law authorizes mutilation "as an individual right" beyond the reach of government.

  • I, for one, mourn the unhappy mutilation of meaning.


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