disembowel

Example Sentences

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Since she’s played by Frances McDormand, the most famous face in the cast and an actor who could disembowel the patriarchy in her sleep, the abruptness of her departure feels particularly pointed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Over the last couple of decades there has been a lot of ink spilled about Silicon Valley, which ironically has helped disembowel most ink-spilling businesses.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2017

Teams of workers snap laptops in half, smash screens, disembowel computers, and cripple keyboards.

From The Verge • Jun. 22, 2016

But The Revenant, which called for him to wear several yards of beard, disembowel a bison, and crawl wearily through miles of ice fields, has surely done the trick.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2015

All interceded for him, but Petronius felt somewhat indignant at such an oversight, and said he must be a careless rascal to forget to disembowel a hog.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan