dismembered

Example Sentences

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“If the President’s House is left dismembered throughout this dispute, so too is the history it recounts, and the City’s relationship to that history,” Rufe wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2024

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

The composite paragon enshrined in her heart gave a final lurch and then fell headlong, to lie dismembered and disregarded, Dagon-like, at the foot of his own pedestal.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian