mangle

If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Anthony Seward was 20 when his hand was crushed in an industrial mangle - an injury that required multiple surgeries, including having the hand sewn into his abdomen to help it heal.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023

To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023

Then I mangle a “merci” and step between the tables, each crowded with young tech workers speaking in euphonic blends of French and English, to a stool by the window overlooking the crowded street.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Like Bess packing her stuff and leaving didn’t mangle what was left of his broken heart.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

If he mangles the facts or ignores them altogether, which he does often, Seales said there are other news sites and sources where viewers can fact-check him.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

Mr. Biden sometimes mangles his words and looks older than he used to because of his stiff gait and thinning voice.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

The radiation inflicts photochemical damage that mangles nucleic acids—inactivating pathogenic viruses and bacteria, although not necessarily killing them.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2022

Franco will have to work to “build out” his accent, but he’ll get bonus points from us if he mangles the ‘r’ in ¡compañero! — a.k.a. “comrade” in Cuban.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

What an ill-conditioned cur he is, and how he mouths and mangles the roses that bestrew his pathway, always bent upon finding the worm at the core!

From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

For years afterward, Angelenos collected firewood from the mangled forest of broken tree branches the waters left behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Viktoria Haidai surveys the mangled remains of the printing press, which should have been busy churning out textbooks ready for the new school year.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Pruned flowerbeds stand in front of gutted and mangled apartment blocks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

She didn’t know if she could love her own mangled, strange heart.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

“Steve ‘Manouychin’ really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser,” Trump posted on social media External link in August, apparently deliberately mangling Mnuchin’s name.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

In 1812, a year of dramatic battles in North America, Europe and Russia, some Russians founded a Sonoma County outpost called Fort Ross, probably an Anglicized mangling of the word “Russ,” for Russia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

Despite a later reputation for mangling his words, Prescott's performance in the conference hall was an impassioned tour de force.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll pushed too hard in the final seconds of Q2, the second part of qualifying, and slid off into the barriers, mangling his right tire and bringing out a red flag.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

"Let him rest in peace. Quit mangling his corpse!"

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison