How To Use Dismember In A Sentence

So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
They did not quite endorse "dismember and disembowel" as a workable alternative. Beyond Repeal And Replace
But they needed other aids, for their teeth and nails could not readily dismember anything larger than a rabbit.
A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Widdershins

An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes. Times, Sunday Times
Nor is an anti-abortion candidate who aired graphic television commercials with footage of dismembered fetuses.
Whether or not you dug The Dismemberment Plan, you have to admit that their parting shot is a real lulu.
The strangulation was the cause of death and the dismemberment was clearly after death, and most likely done for the purpose of trying to conceal the murder and dispose of the body. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2007
We literally see rivers of blood, disembowelings, slit throats, and dismemberment.
A very straightforward narrative told with understated cinematic technique, this is not an excuse to show off how cool it can be to dismember a character using computer graphics.
The reason for which body and soul unite follows from a deed -- the Titanic act of dismembering and killing Dionysos.
It would be outrageous for the Union to be dismembered without all its parts being consulted in a referendum. Times, Sunday Times
This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
Perhaps the intellectual prestige of the British declined as their empire was dismembered. The Times Literary Supplement
Further macabre details of summary executions, including the use of dynamite to dismember prisoners, are expected to be released soon.
This problem is of principal importance to Russia as long as there are forces that intend to resort to a strategy of dismembering this country to prevent it from emerging as a strong competitor, especially a superpower.
His dismembered body was dumped near Hoover Dam.
The disemboweling and dismemberment and fake blood may have caused some digestion problems.
Alas, the second film is an absolutely harrowing tale of torture and dismemberment.
Naturally things start slow (the first death comes quick and with little gore) and by the end we get chainsaw dismemberments.
The country in an advanced stage of dismemberment is Belgium. Archive 2007-12-16
AP Enterprise: Husbands, others recall dismembered NC girl's stepmom as abusive, 'pure evil' By MITCH WEISS and TOM BREEN , Associated Press StarTribune.com rss feed
Alone in rural Texas and with barely anything to eat, she retreats further and further into the world of her imagination – a world where she converses with fireflies and dismembered Barbie doll heads, a world where the meadow is the bottom of the ocean and a great shark swims about, a world where ghosts and frightening Bog Men are on the loose. Archive 2007-09-01
The kingdom of the Greeks is now dismembered by them, and deprived of territory so vast in extent that it can not be traversed in a march of two months.
This land comprised dismembered lands of the old manses or lands won from the former or by assarting from the waste.
In 1102 Henry I broke the sons of Roger of Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, and dismembered their father's marcher ‘empire’.
Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the axman of further dismemberment. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
Nothing would have led more swiftly to the country's dismemberment than a policy of discrimination in the granting of privileges between one power and another.
It threatened multicultural states with dismemberment, whether by secession or irredentist demands.
He also admitted to dismembering a six-year-old child.
When the dust settled in the pre-dawn darkness Saturday, the House passed a CR that is less a spending guide than a policy manifesto to gut, dismember, defund or derail protections we've relied upon for years, if not decades. Peter Lehner: A Republican Rampage
the tiger dismembered the tourist
Vivien Leigh, he wrote, approached the role of Cleopatra "with the daintiness of a debutante called upon to dismember a stag. A challenging role for a complex thespian
This would see much of the rest of the company, which is subsidized by the printing revenue, looking highly vulnerable to dismemberment.
With showtime less than a week away, Washington postpunk superheroes the Dismemberment Plan got the jump on an eagerly anticipated reunion tour with a secret show at the Galaxy Hut in Arlington on Saturday night. The Dismemberment Plan performs secret show at Galaxy Hut
Do you agree with the author that his dismemberment was an attempt to purge himself of "unsavory" thoughts and deeds? The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions
Even church goers are beginning to question the motives of those that demand too much of their money for the Lord and remind you that you can be "dismembered" when you ask uncomfortable questions about doctrine or the Bible itself. Never Wrong...No One Is Ever Wrong
It was a particular grief for him to see the army to which he had devoted his life dismembered by partition in 1947.
The psycho family takes pampered kids fascinated by death and dismemberment and puts them through the wringer of the real thing.
Though the dragonette lay dismembered, a response to its dying cries filled the arena and perhaps the rest of the city. Odyssey
The official said the suspects had admitted to making an appointment to meet the car dealer and then shooting him, dismembering him and scattering the body parts around eastern Moscow.
The police found the dismembered body of a young man in the murderer's freezer.
A Yorkshireman suspected of dismembering a man then fleeing to the United States was waiting to return to the UK last night after officially waiving his right to fight extradition.
Prosecutors said he strangled him and later dismembered his girlfriend in Greece in 1997.
It was a particular grief for him to see the army to which he had devoted his life dismembered by partition in 1947.
An unknown man's dismembered body was found by the police in the suburb woods.
They don't dismember their victims, Trestrail says. DNA upends century-old murder verdict
Thompson, who denies murder, then allegedly dismembered the body before burying the remains in the Lake District.
The victim's dismemberedbody was found in a trunk.
Continued war with the United States would most certainly result in further dismemberment of national territory.
I know they 'cheat' on them to make them easier to "dismember" as my kids and I used to say, but it's still aggravating when you encounter them in print. Homonym, Acronym, Synonym....Oh My!! - SpouseBUZZ
our department was dismembered when our funding dried up
But yes, when not having a choice and just being plain evil, decapitation and dismemberment is the entertainment of the day! Weekly
Her dismembered body was found in a house near by. Times, Sunday Times
His son Saif al-Islam threatened to dismember the country and plunge it into a civil war that will last for 30 or 40 years. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship
A slave convicted of a clergyable offence, shall be entitled to the benefit of clergy, in like manner with a freeman, and when he shall pray for the same, the court shall have power to direct and adjudge such corporal punishment short of death or dismemberment as to the court shall seem right, under all the circumstances of the case; and the entry of such judgment shall have the same legal effects and consequences, as if the slave or slaves were burned in the hand, as in the case of a freeman convicted of a similar offence. Slaves and Free Persons of Color. An Act Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color
Much of our comments debate about RapeLay over the past few days has revolved around one question raised by many: If graphic, violent dismemberment is permitted and even celebrated in video games, then why is rape considered completely off-limits? Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
The advocacy of the dismemberment of "bourgeois-boyar" Greater Romania, to which the author alludes, was perpetrated, in various articles, signed by some of those who were the power behind the (communist) throne, namely Timotei Marin (Tima) and Ghita Moscu, who demanded that the Act of December 1, 1918, sanctioning the unification of Transylvania with Romania, be declared null and void. Survival in Romania
An unknown man's dismembered body was found by the police in the suburb woods.
It's tremendously ghoulish this film, with dismembering and disinterring graphically depicted.
They forgot that the charge of "abolitionism," which was incessantly hurled at the Republican party, was thus by no means wanting in essential truth, and that when the slaveholders were vanquished in the election of Mr. Lincoln, their appeal from the ballot to the bullet was the logical result of their insane devotion to slavery, and their conviction that nothing could save it but the dismemberment of the Republic. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
There is no sane reason to review the acting or storyline in A Night To Dismember.
They also raise extraordinary philosophical issues; like whether extracting them from a test-tube embryo is tantamount to dismembering a baby.
One scene involves the total dismemberment of a victim and the packaging of the body parts for storage in a meat-processing plant.
It threatened multicultural states with dismemberment, whether by secession or irredentist demands.
He's wrestling with a dismembered mannequin in the window and Sobieski hands him the mannequin's arm, saying, ‘Need a hand?’
A post-mortem revealed that the dead man had been hit on the side of the head with a blunt instrument before being strangled and dismembered.
Nevertheless, Treadwell was aware, at least on an intellectual level, that he courted dismemberment or death.
Her dismembered body was found in a house near by. Times, Sunday Times
An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes. Times, Sunday Times
Regional elections in the early 1990s shifted the reform agenda from liberalization to subnational independence and central state dismemberment.
The British railway network has gradually been dismembered.
She seems to wonder at the inexplicable attraction of female to male, despite the risk of imprisonment in love or spiritual dismemberment: "disarticulation" is the word she used in Undefined
When in 1903 Leo XIII died and the Patriarch of Venice ascended to St Peter's throne as Pius X, the Vatican dismembered the political arm of the organization for good.
Mill saw some of these local prejudices as some protection against a wholly centralized state; so a case for the reform of local government, not for its dismemberment.
Singara, and the castle of the Moors, one of the strongest places of Mesopotamia, were likewise dismembered from the empire. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Most German commentators now regard the dismembering of the Kirch empire as a foregone conclusion, leaving other sports and TV companies across Europe facing an uncertain future.
A post-mortem revealed that the dead man had been hit on the side of the head with a blunt instrument before being strangled and dismembered.
We have been at the precipe of national dismemberment, and drawn back, at least for now. The Anxious Years: Politics in the Age of Mulroney and Chrétien
An enjoinder qualifies that nothing in the Declaration should be construed as authorizing any dismemberment or impairment of the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States.
Currency stabilization was a top economic priority after World War l in the dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire.
AP Enterprise: Husbands, others recall dismembered NC girl's stepmom as abusive, 'pure evil' AP Enterprise: Husbands, others recall dismembered NC girl's stepmom as abusive, 'pure evil' - Elisa Baker had an uncanny ability to stay ahead of bill collectors, police, social workers and her multiple husbands, The Associated Press discovered in an investigation of the woman who led authorities to the dismembered remains of her disabled, 10-year-old stepdaughter. StarTribune.com rss feed
Already dismembered, from the cracked legs the white meat sent forth a small looked down in savory steam. Page 5
The company wanted the breakup to be referred to as "divestiture" only a few days earlier, but let it be dismemberment if it wishes.
We are party to the destruction of a city and the dismembering of its country amid growing insecurity.
The redemption is achieved through memory, the uncovering of power's buried past: ‘They make you disremember, forget, dismember,’ the narrator says, ‘Remember… remember’.
I remember sitting in the dark auditorium, feeling awkward amidst my male colleagues, watching the images of dismembered and scantily clad female body parts advertising liquor and cars and possibly orange juice flash across the screen in dizzying succession. Lori Day: The Gender Pendulum: How the Free Market Economy Creates Gender Polarization
The European empires were dismembered by nationalist movements, with support from lawyers, journalists, unions, and the churches.
February 2001 Her dismembered body is found in a cave. Times, Sunday Times
Her husband's dismembered body was later discovered in the trunk of her car.
Aztec art, with its themes of dismemberment and reintegration, was the inspiration for the fiction of magical realism.
Sir Richard taking the advantage of his minority, put the finishing hand to a peace with Spain, which was sufficiently tired and weakened with a 25 years war, for the recovery of Portugal, which had been dismembered from the Spanish crown in 1640; the treaty of peace was signed at Madrid December 6, 1665. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
Alexander felt that the dismemberment of Poland, over which his grandmother Catherine had presided, had been a shameful act.
In the old vegetation myths the god is dismembered, dies, and is buried as a sacrifice that generates new life, freeing the waters and restoring life to the Waste Land.
It may be fairly interpreted as a symbol of Nature-dismemberment in Winter and resurrection in Spring; but we must also not forget that it may (and indeed must) have stood as an allegory of TRIBAL dismemberment and reconciliation -- the tribe, conceived of as a divinity, having thus suffered and died through the inbreak of sin and the self-motive, and risen again into wholeness by the redemption of love and sacrifice. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
For the first time, we are going to watch a child being torn apart, dismembered, disarticulated, crushed and destroyed by the unfeeling steel instruments of the abortionist. Bernard Nathanson, abortion doctor who became anti-abortion advocate, dies at 84
It would be outrageous for the Union to be dismembered without all its parts being consulted in a referendum. Times, Sunday Times
The knowledge that the original medieval punishment for this particular sin was'being dismembered alive' is some consolation to me. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, Geithner's language - he wants to "dismember" failed financial firms "safely" - is interesting. Manhattan Institute Articles
This disarticulating dismemberment of the body will be linked to the linguistic understanding of materiality and specifically to the disarticulation of tropes, as indeed the term (figure? trope?) "disarticulation" suggests. Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
Take a pile of mystery keys, dismembered action figures, dead flashlights, assorted calculators and undeveloped rolls of film.
February 2001 Her dismembered body is found in a cave. Times, Sunday Times
To skin and dismember the carcase was a matter of little difficulty to these hunters, who were all expert butchers. The Pioneers
You can buy a new electric tea kettle featuring easy - to - dismember recyclable parts.
To allay state fears of dismemberment, a proposed new state has to be supported by the parliament of the state affected.
The dismemberment is done in visualization only, hence there is no infringement of the rule of conduct.
We were the ones that brought the country to its independence in 1923, by a treaty for dismembering the old Ottoman Empire.
The European empires were dismembered by nationalist movements, with support from lawyers, journalists, unions, and the churches.
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons depicts the graphic and bloody dismemberment of a cannibalistic infanticide.
But they needed other aids, for their teeth and nails could not readily dismember anything larger than a rabbit.
The preservation condition is strong in dismembering because of polycyclic tectonic movement′s superimposition in the marine strata of Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi Region.
The flaw in that approach, in our submission, is that it tends to dismember the definition of ‘refugee’ in Article 1A and then abstracts a particular element from its context and seeks to say that the Tribunal must deal with that element.
Instead of legs and arms, instead of dismemberment, we read about the 'disarticulation' of 'fetal tissue'. Balkinization
Ms Rice said it had been "deeply disconcerting" that Russia had tried to "dismember Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
The British railway network has gradually been dismembered.
If graphic, violent dismemberment is permitted and even celebrated in video games, then why is rape considered completely off-limits? Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
On his accession, his priority was to save Macedon from dismemberment by hostile powers, poised for the kill.
Dismembered frog purses + Nazi & picaninny memorabilia. Regretsy – JP. Toad’s
Swellfoot's desire for Iona to be taken into custody and brought to him, dismembered, underscores his anxious need to reassert his phallic authority over her, to take comfort in the sight of his own phallic power as it is manifested at the site of her "castrated" body. Shelley
Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war.
Here, the cobbled street branched to form the perimeter of a paved rectangle containing two ornate fountains and a statue of a mounted king which had been hauled down and partly dismembered.
'' She was saying 'lots of blood', 'a foot ',' dismembered ',' constriction of breath '. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Perhaps the intellectual prestige of the British declined as their empire was dismembered. The Times Literary Supplement
In hospitals, doctors dismember their patients.
Nietzsche scatter a dismembered sentence; their aim, to underdetermine the significance of tropes. Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.
They dismembered the animal and cooked its meat over an open fire. Times, Sunday Times
Dismembered counterparts of the Beysehir-Hoyran Nappes further east are restored as a Triassic rifted margin.
Le Cochon records the slaughter and dismemberment of a pig and the process of transforming the dead animal into various food products.
It's one thing to watch people being dismembered on screen.
Finally, for a Druid holiday celebration, attend the art happening at the Steve Allen Theater to observe "the ritual known as the dismemberment of the bull. The Agenda: Indie Rock Holiday Concerts And Christmas TV Specials
He swam past the head and neck of a carousel horse, its painted eye glaring backwards as if horrified by its dismemberment. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
I am astonished to see it's the partly buried, dismembered body of a woman.
The man accused of murdering and dismembering another man after stabbing him through the heart may have had some knowledge of butchery, a court heard.
I won't argue with you or "dismember" you because your points are valid. Comments for Azure Flame
When Britain was thus dismembered from the empire, its importance was sensibly felt, and its loss sincerely lamented. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He also dismembers victims and attaches their limbs to car batteries to make them twitch.
On Wednesday Carles Puyol, nudged out of play at high speed by Angel Di María, remembered to uproot the corner flag as he careered past, having calculated in a micro‑second that the already‑in‑place Di María would be prevented from taking a quick throw with the pitch thus dismembered. Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay
I feel bad for the horse that has to stand there and watch while its fellow herbivore is dismembered. Meat Lovers Only! « Awful Library Books
Yet others remained recognizable as dismembered parts of domestic or industrial objects, including the curving back of a wicker loveseat, bundles of chair and table legs, and the back of a bentwood rocker.
Words such as deform, disfigure, disjoint, and dismember all apply to this surgery. No, u furst - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Officers said a large knife had been thrust into the man before he was dismembered. The Sun
He admits obstructing the coroner by dismembering a body. The Sun
It looks like the company is heading for the knackers' yard for dismemberment by its banks.
After World War I, England and France dismembered the Ottoman Empire and carved out Iraq and other states as pawns of European colonial interests.
And this act of dismemberment is poised under the art of free speech. Obama campaign makes general election plans
a 25 years war, for the recovery of Portugal, which had been dismembered from the Spanish crown in 1640; the treaty of peace was signed at Madrid December 6, 1665. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II
Horses are dismembered, arrows slice through necks, and swift blades render unexpected carnage.
The decision to dismember the body and deposit the parts in Galveston Bay, is highly incriminating.
It would be outrageous for the Union to be dismembered without all its parts being consulted in a referendum. Times, Sunday Times
He was not there when the child was born, he was not there when the child died and he was not there when the child was dismembered and buried?
The patient has the second step of the second trimester abortion performed by a gynecologist with special expertise in second trimester abortions using a method called dilatation and evacuation D&Ewhich involves dismembering the fetus, which is the safest method for second trimester abortions. If it didn't come from an abortion clinic...
The alternative is to kill the fetus in the uterus and then dismember it, removing it piece by piece, with each intrusion into the uterus running the risk of perforating the uterus and increasing the danger of infection. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
They dismembered the animal and cooked its meat over an open fire. Times, Sunday Times
A movin 'gen'rally looks sort of sad, doesn't it, Pa?" she said, as she settled herself on the dismembered beds. The Second Chance
Monstrous imagery percolates through his work, as does the theme of dismemberment.
It may be fairly interpreted as a symbol of Nature-dismemberment in Winter and resurrection in Spring; but we must also not forget that it may (and indeed must) have stood as an allegory of tribal dismemberment and reconciliation -- the tribe, conceived of as a divinity, having thus suffered and died through the inbreak of sin and the self-motive, and risen again into wholeness by the redemption of love and sacrifice. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
Austria-Hungary lost 1.3 million military lives and the victorious western Allies dismembered its empire.
It's probably the dismembered carcass of some old shed.
He admits obstructing the coroner by dismembering a body. The Sun
In the past, the gang has threatened to kidnap and dismember the boy.
Berlin learns of an old case involving the serial murder and pathological dismemberment of certain body parts of the victims.
The myth of the dismemberment of Dionysos by the Titans, however, provides a possible clue to the solution.
The British railway network has gradually been dismembered.
No further hesitation was thereafter possible for the ruler of Gruyère, who was thus compelled to take sides against the duchess if he wished to preserve his country from dismemberment and the cruel and ferocious devastation which the Confederates were now inflicting upon the beautiful country of Romand Switzerland, and particularly upon the country of Vaud, the apanage of Duke Charles 'maréchal, Count Romont. The Counts of Gruyère

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