mangle

Example Sentences

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If others want to mangle their feet and suffer back problems, that is their business.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

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

Ms Bowler said the ring had had "a charmed life" and had been damaged going through a mangle, but it was not expensive jewellery that caught her mother's eye.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2021

To mangle the words of Bob Dylan, “The game times they are a-changin’.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2020

I threaded another wet tablecloth through the mangle to squeeze the water from it.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson