lacerate
Example Sentences
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"I'm convinced that if my nerve was lacerated tomorrow I would have our implant put in," he said.
From BBC
Ms. MeLampy is at her best when she eschews personal narrative in favor of her lacerating accounts of the animal festivals she visits.
“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by criminal networks that have profoundly marked the life of our country,” Zelaya wrote on X on Monday.
Judge Cote lacerated the plaintiff attorneys for cherry-picking evidence and ignoring studies that have found no causal link.
He left the room, returning with a metronome whose loud, mechanical clicking lacerated the otherwise-fine mood being created by a Bach record on the turntable.
From Salon
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