dismembered
Example Sentences
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“There he tinkered with dismembered clocks and toasters, and the pathos of dismantled gears, springs and wires infected him with a tenderness for mechanisms that spill their guts for all the world to see.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Now the dismembered statue has become a symbol of a city - and a nation - struggling to reckon with its darkest chapters.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
It was Coyolxauhqui, carefully portrayed in stone as the dismembered lunar goddess who lost a battle against her brother, the Sun.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023
In 1993, ABC aired a Saturday morning cartoon show, "Tales From the Cryptkeeper," that featured a somewhat softer approach to the morbid material: characters didn't die, and being dismembered was off-limits.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2022
A short circuit in one of the dismembered pieces; 3.
