mangle

How To Use mangle In A Sentence

• The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
• The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
• One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
• Or, the lift wreckage would become mangled inside the tubing, preventing any further use of that tube.
• It can't: it is crammed with lovers packed in tight, the details smashed flat, extraneous facts shorn away to save space, mangled and compressed to the point of incomprehensibility and all beyond counting or collating.
• The husky female voice on the other end explained in mangled Franglish that she would like to - merde!
• My writing heart feels as crushed as that last bit of toothpaste that refuses to be squeezed out its flattened, mangled tube because someone (and I won’t name name but it begins with S and ends in cott) left the cap off again … Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » That’s Right. It’s Contest Time.
• Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
• Andi reached into one of her mangled pockets and pulled out an unfamiliar billfold.
• Blood was splattered on the walls of the mangled buses.