mangle

Example Sentences

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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

Giant pumps that send water south through aqueducts mangle the critters or draw them into the grasp of lurking predators.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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

The downtown area of Trumann on Sunday morning was still a mangle of downed power lines, shattered glass and damaged cars strewn about as if they were children’s toys.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2021

The tablecloth came out the other end of the mangle, and I dropped it into a hickory basket.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson