Example sentences for: skewered

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

  • For this, they were skewered by abortion opponents.

  • After skulls are smashed, throats slit, and bosoms skewered in the name of Christ, Elizabeth decides to: a) "unsex" herself and become a symbol--the Virgin Queen, married only to England; and b) entertain dissenting opinions exclusively from those whose heads are affixed to spikes.

  • At lunchtime, you can sample the morning’s catch, skewered on a wooden stick and grilled over a fire on the beach (see page 97).

  • In Roe , the Supreme Court skewered Texas for enshrining this contradiction in law.

  • My heart aches for the days of the old Spy , when columnists hid behind pseudonyms, skewered Abe "I'm Writing as Bad as I Can" Rosenthal and other Times men, and recounted delicious personal details about editors I'd never heard of who left the bathroom without washing their hands, etc.


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