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• Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.From the entry turn in one's grave
• When I paged up or down, the text would sometimes get mangled and duplicated.From the entry page up
• He took a mangled roll-up from behind his ear and lit it.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry roll-up
• He held out a severely mangled hand, with clawed, yellowish nails.2012, Andrew Vachss, Blackjack: A Cross Novel. From the entry toadish
• What satirist could then top Texas Republican Joe Barton's coerced, linguistically mangled fauxpology?2010 June 23, Ruth Marcus, “The Gulf oil disaster: when bad things happen to bad companies”, in The Seattle Times. From the entry fauxpology
• He took a deep breath, removed the mangled end from the bander, and started over.2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry bander
• Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’.1975, Angela Carter, “The Hidden Child”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 546. From the entry necrophagic
• Standard commercially offered plating barrels distorted, mangled and misplated these delicate shapes.1961, American Electroplaters' Society, Proceedings of the Annual Convention, page 146. From the entry misplate
• He mangled their dead bodies with his cruel Saxton sword.2018, Horace P. Beck, The Folklore of Maine. From the entry rebelhood
• The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard.2014, Don Pendleton, Cold War Reprise, →ISBN. From the entry broken-handed
• An eggcorn is a term that is misunderstood and mangled, like ‘give up the goat’ or ‘hone in on’.2006 October, Kerry Webb, “Lost? Misquoted? We want better communication!”, in inCite, volume 27, number 10, Australian Library and…. From the entry eggcorn
• Attacked in front and rear, the Ormondians were piked and shot, and many were left mangled along the pass.1914, John O'Hanlon, History of the Queen's County, page 475. From the entry Ormondian
• The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph.1900, C. Osborne Ward, The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of…. From the entry acropolitan
• The reductionist tendencies and impulses of Jaynes's approach tend to turn history into a Procrustean Bed; the body is mangled to fit the theory.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry procrustean bed
• True, he knew that when he beheld it, the offspring of his brain would have been mangled almost out of recognition, but that did not deter him.1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George…. From the entry brainchild

Meaning of mangled

1. adjective Mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.

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How do you use mangled in a sentence?

Mangled is used as an adjective. For example: “Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.”

What is a short sentence with mangled?

“He mangled their dead bodies with his cruel Saxton sword.”

What does mangled mean?

Mangled means mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.