dismember

He’s seen ants work as a team to dismember prey in minutes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 22, 2024

Although their store is closed two days a week, it’s become their second home — one they don’t have to unpack and dismember at the end of the afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

Since Jarboe began the competition two months ago, improvement has been rapid: As of early April, 17 of her 20 students have learned to fashion and dismember double knots with aplomb.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022

Instead, the victors deprived the French of their conquests and imposed a modest indemnity, but they did not dismember the country.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

I’m pretty sure the only thing you could dismember is a sandwich.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The French do not expect from the Macron leadership that it dismembers our overseas territories behind their backs," she said, describing the territories as "true levers of power, influence and economic development".

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

Fine takes on this king of all biases with admirable vigor, and it’s a pleasure — albeit a strenuous one — to follow the action as she dismembers the beast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

That distinction belongs to the Financial Stability Oversight Council—the beak with which Dodd-Frank dismembers its prey. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 7, 2014

And he digs a deeper hole by mangling the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, whose lyric he dismembers with bizarre changes of tone, volume and intonation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011

The very period of his reign witnesses the sudden growth of the Lithuanian power which dismembers the Russian appanages from the West, while the Tartar squeezes them into one mass from the East.

From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx

If the lease was found to be consistent with the intent of Congress, “the entire West LA campus could be dismembered by private entities that provide marginal benefits to veterans,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

A dark cloud hangs over the whole enterprise, with the perils of the sea and forbidden love illustrated by long, discordant drones and dismembered sounds.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

No toes or feet were dismembered in the celebration.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

“It started very early,” he said, producing as evidence a faded, dismembered copy of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he received as a teenager in school and still carries in his wallet.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

They did not wish the nation to betray itself; they did not wish the nation to be dismembered; they did not wish the country any longer to serve the foreigner.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

The eight years Darwin spent dismembering these tiny invertebrates at home took up more than 20 pages in Ms. Browne’s old version; they now receive barely four.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

During the war, a number of proposals for dismembering the empire had been considered.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

With large mandibles capable of dismembering and masticating honeybees en masse — and stingers that can puncture beekeeping suits — the V. mandarinia has become an increasing threat to honeybee hives in the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021

An astute politician, Cortes studied the Triple Alliance with a view to dismembering it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann