lacerated

How To Use lacerated In A Sentence

• The man's face was severely lacerated in the accident.
• 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
• The left was lacerated over the back and across the knuckles. CHAMELEON
• 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
• 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.
• (squamulose), rough (scabrous), dotted, lacerated, or be marked with a network of veins (reticulated). Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
• Prevented from surfacing to breathe, the sea mammals drown while their skin is lacerated by the spines of writhing fish.
• Pain filled her mind as she felt her skin being lacerated and heard the crack of the whip.
• He saw again the dead bodies in the green draw, the naked look of lacerated flesh.
• I go out to a place like Woomera and I see ten and twelve year old boys who have lacerated their arms.