How To Use Lacerate In A Sentence

This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
The Company's flagship product, the Sharps Disposal by Mail System (R), is a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to dispose of medical waste such as hypodermic needles, lancets and any other medical device or objects used to puncture or lacerate the skin (referred to as "sharps"). Undefined
The bullet passed from right to left markedly upwards and forwards, enters the right abdominal cavity where it transfixes and mutilates the right kidney, transfixes the right lobe of the liver, transfixes diaphragm, transfixes the lower lobe of the left lung, transfixes sibson fascia on the left, lacerates the left common carotid artery and emerges through wound no. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
Lacerated in the press, he eventually incinerated his drawings.
Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance A Tale in Two Parts

From an examination it appeared that a neglected lacerated cervix during the birth of the last child had given rise to endometritis, and for a year the patient had suffered from severe menorrhagia, for which she was subsequently treated. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
-- Edges of colonies: e, Lobar-lobulate; f, auriculate; g, lacerate; h, fimbriate; i, ciliate.] (F) ~Optical Characters~ (after Shuttleworth). The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
There were prominent bilateral scalp contusions with soft tissue and intramuscular haemorrhage, symmetrical parietal skull fractures with coronal sutural diastasis, and a lacerated dura mater with extrusion of brain and blood.
According to Iliev, Pazhin, who plays in Ukraine, has a torn ankle tendon, while Zagorich has a lacerated calf muscle.
The sharp stones lacerated his feet.
Saith Ponocrates: At Montpelier, John Chouart having bought of the monks of St. Olary a delicate set of decretals, written on fine large parchment of Lamballe, to beat gold between the leaves, not so much as a piece that was beaten in them came to good, but all were dilacerated and spoiled. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The habitual spectators at the School of Medicine, the College of France, and the Faculty of Sciences, know how experiments are made on the living flesh, how muscles are divided and cut, the nerves wrenched or dilacerated, the bones broken or methodically opened with gouge, mallet, saw, and pincers. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it, but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance
Terrified and panicking, he tried to kick in a glass door to escape his pursuers and, in doing so, fatally lacerated himself.
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A few years later a crisis of confidence led him into an almost reclusive lifestyle, where he would paint to get away from the pain and, more disturbingly, lacerate his skin because he believed he wasn't attractive to the opposite sex.
It was when she shook hands with him and lacerated her tender skin in the fisty grip of his rope-calloused palms. CHAPTER V
Extensive slit-like cuts in this region, when deep enough to lacerate the keratogenous membrane, are sometimes followed by the growth of a fissure in the horn, and what might almost be termed a permanent sand-crack results. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
She lacerates Obama, his administration and his family for failures in government spending, foreign policy, business, education, immigration, morality and faith. In 'Obama Diaries,' self-absorbed musings
His legs were deeply lacerated, but his life was saved when a stranger managed to pluck him from the waters.
They lacerated him for saying he wanted the Democratic Party to reach out to working-class Southerners who drive pickups bearing Confederate-flag decals.
Long ago Faith had said in Soolsby's but that he "blandished" all with whom he came in contact; but Hylda realised with a lacerated heart that he had ceased to blandish her. The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2
There is no better way of testing whether pain has been felt than by taking the lacerated or contused gums of the patient between the index finger and thumb and making a gentle pressure to collapse the alveolar borders; invariably, they will cry out lustily, _that is pain_! Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
The ER was a mixed blessing: her insides were burnt and lacerated and her arms were a contused mess, but they all thought she was crazy. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The Company's flagship product, the Sharps Disposal by Mail System (r), is a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to dispose of medical waste such as hypodermic needles, lancets and any other medical device or objects used to puncture or lacerate the skin News
With a desperate movement she tore the lacerated cloth of his trousers open to his hip. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
So they made us put stones in our shoes and ropes around our waists which lacerated our skin.
Mr Copeland, in his gentlemanlike way, completely lacerated the Government's position.
Men don't lacerate themselves in their attempts to get laughs.
A major vessel has been lacerated.
A retroverted uterus, a lacerated perineum, such minor difficulties as flat feet, such major ones as valvular disease of the heart, are causes of ill health to be ruled out before "nervousness" (or its medical equivalents) is to be diagnosed. The Nervous Housewife
Earl passed a treatment room off ER where another youthful trainee, this one masked and gloved, frowned mightily as he wielded a suture and hemostat over a child's lacerated cheek. Mortal Remains
She suffered serious head injuries and a badly lacerated leg and never regained consciousness.
Between these extremes are cases in which the capsular and synovial layer are extensively lacerated without involvement of the bones, and others in which the bones are implicated without serious damage being done to ligaments or synovial layer -- for example, by a bullet passing through and through the cancellated part of one of the constituent bones, or by a fissure extending into the articular surface. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
His leg lacerated by the tiger's claws.
They try to perforate the uterus, to get the foetus out, but often lacerate the cervix along the way, so many bleed heavily or leave tissue in the womb which becomes infected. Unsafe abortion in Zambia
The star of I Love You Phillip Morris, The Truman Show, Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind teams up with the primed-for-prime-time players to lacerate today's headline-splashing people and events. Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011
Instead of making that kind of attack, I wanted to make one that was satirical - one that would lacerate, tear apart, shred the CIA by burlesquing them, by using these great materials.
His leg was lacerated by the tiger's claws.
The man's face was severely lacerated in the accident.
The quick session produced no jams, no misdirected shots, and best of all, no springs flying through the air looking for a face to lacerate. Paradise General
She was suffering from a badly lacerated hand.
His fist smacked into her chest and she grunted in pain but held fast, despite her lacerated hands.
Her bare feet were lacerated as she dug through the wreckage.
A washing machine he was putting into the skip slipped backwards, gashing his forehead, splitting his nose and leaving his fingers badly lacerated.
A badly lacerated knee meant he missed the Third Test but the attrition rate in the Kiwi camp meant that instead of being able to put his feet up, he had to travel to France to play in a one-off Test.
A washing machine he was putting into the skip slipped backwards, gashing his forehead and leaving his fingers badly lacerated.
You will be publicly lacerated by a few managers who will feel obliged to feign indignation that you didn't select his county's full-back/full-forward, whatever.
On a busy night in the Harcourt Hotel in September 1999, a glass stem broke and lacerated her left wrist.
Even my shadow brushing against him would lacerate his nerves. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
Berardinelli lacerates Stone for allegedly not making an attempt to appeal to the masses.
When the West lacerates and humbles itself, the mufsidun rise again. Cold War Deja vu: The “Realists” Aren’t
But the vet said the rock hand lacerated his stomach and part of the intestine had gangrened.
Some one went to commiserate with Harbury and Harbury went to lacerate Riley for announcing an appointment he had no intention of accepting.
Even my shadow brushing against him would lacerate his nerves. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts. CHAPTER IV
She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles. Chapter 2
His hand had been badly lacerated.
Instantly, unless he is disabled by a well directed shot, he makes an onset, and, striking his antagonist with the palm of his hands, or seizing him with a grasp from which there is no escape, he dashes him upon the ground, and lacerates him with his tusks. Essays
The upright stems have many, alternate, pinnately compound leaves with sharply toothed or lacerate leaflets.
Pedar's fingers were working furiously across his inflamed, lacerated neck. THE BROKEN GOD
When the social stakes were higher, her words could lacerate. Geisha Doll
Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground. IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water. Book VI
In medieval prisons, inmates were punished with a device called a "cat-o'-nine-tails" -- a whip made of nine knotted thongs of cord designed to lacerate the skin and cause intense pain. How Does Ringling Bros. Make Elephants Do That?
The man's face was severely lacerated in the accident.
He saw again the dead bodies in the green draw, the naked look of lacerated flesh.
In the final minutes of her first Supreme Court term, Justice Elena Kagan delivered a full-blast dissent, using pointed, colloquial, sometimes sarcastic language rarely seen from the court's liberal minority to lacerate the conservative majority in a campaign-finance case. Kagan Gives New Life to Court's Liberal Wing
Pain filled her mind as she felt her skin being lacerated and heard the crack of the whip.
Prevented from surfacing to breathe, the sea mammals drown while their skin is lacerated by the spines of writhing fish.
(squamulose), rough (scabrous), dotted, lacerated, or be marked with a network of veins (reticulated). Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
As expected, however, opposition leaders lacerated the Minister for Finance over the myriad of petty fees, charges and levies he introduced to extract the shortfall from citizens' wallets.
On inquiring how he came to get such a tremendous thrashing, it turned out that these Basutus have a custom of sending young men of a certain age [+] out in couples, each armed with a good "sjambok" (a whip cut from the hide of a sea-cow), to thrash one another till one gives in, and that it was in one of these encounters that the intelligent Scowl got so lacerated; but, as he remarked with a grin, "_My_ back is nothing, the chiefs should see that of the other boy. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Walters lacerates herself for three failed marriages and a wayward adopted daughter. Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora
They are very industrious however at their Prayrs and devotions that is to say in repeating their Pater Nosters, in counting their Beads, in kissing their Crucifixes, and taking off their hair Shifts to whip and lacerate themselves every day for their Sins, to discipline themselves to greater Spirituality in the Christian Life. John Adams autobiography, part 3, "Peace," 1779-1780
With the help of a thesaurus his mother had given him, Bush had erroneously written about “lacerates” running down his cheek – instead of tears. Michael Kimmel on “The Boy Crisis” and Anti-Male Ideology
The left was lacerated over the back and across the knuckles. CHAMELEON
Page 28 who wrote an account of the Revolution in the island, in terms by no means favourable to the Negroes -- "It must be allowed that if St. Domingo still carried the colours of France, it was solely owing to an old Negro, who seemed to bear a commission from heaven to unite its dilacerated members. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
I go out to a place like Woomera and I see ten and twelve year old boys who have lacerated their arms.
Quite a few disconsolate men complained that the ballot should have been secret, but they did so while lacerated by basilisk stares from the suspicious harridans they had brought with them.
My stomach growls and hunger pangs, almost worse than the pains in my arms, legs, and face, lacerate through my body, disrupting the numbness in my growth strips and sending phantom burnings through my non-existent wings.
He sustained a punctured colon, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver and kidney.
One man's leg was broken, another's thigh was lacerated; luckily, nobody had died.
Dont u know that the pain of the loss lacerates the heart and lingers for life time. history mystery Ruchiii Diary Entry
Mickey Joseph slid out of bounds and lacerated his calf muscle.
Instead of trying to outargue we will lacerate our opponents into silence. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Have I no sore places in my mind which MECHI touches — which NICOLL probes — which no registered article whatever lacerates? Reprinted Pieces
We inserted numer - ous suction tips between the lacerated tongue and orifice of the aluminum water - canister.
Of wounds, indeed, it is rightly and truly said, Nemo repente fuit turpissimus. 15 I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Disputes on this matter lacerated their friendship.
Mr. Bush "lacerates" his critics, despite the fact that they have been proven more correct than he: Even now, when a majority of Americans agree with the millions of citizens who demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq before the war, Mr. Bush refuses to communicate with, listen to, or learn from his critics. Fred Branfman: President Bush is Endangering our Lives - 13. Actively Dividing Us at Home
RW Corey Perry, sidelined by a lacerated right quad tendon, is expected to be out for another three weeks or so. USATODAY.com
He lacerated the New Journalists even though as a writer for Life during World War II, he used a composite character.
Content that his lacerated memory would vanish with him.
Too many people are literal e.g. they removed my 2 inch swiss with nail scissors but I was given a 5 inch steel knife [not plastic which can still lacerate skin] to cut my bread, oh! well! you ‘figger’, follow blindly orders. Living In A Police State – (Thank Goodness). « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
-- Exostosis of the first and second phalanges is usually due to some form of injury, whether it be a contusion, a lacerated wound which damages the periosteum, or periostititis and osteitis incited by concussions of locomotion, or ligamentous strain. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
He also lacerated Dr Cowley's record in relation to the recent European elections when he attempted to support two candidates.
I'm sure they will lacerate me.
The barbed wire had lacerated her arm.
The word "dragoon" was a thorn in my tenderest part that rankled and lacerated at every stir. Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
In his keynote address to the Labour Party conference in Killarney, Rabbitte lacerated the government for breaking its election promises and operating behind closed doors.
If the men slackened off, the planks they stood on came up and lacerated the shins of their legs causing painful injury.

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