mutilated

How To Use mutilated In A Sentence

• By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
• The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
• In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
• I preserved this mutilated object with uncommon care, watching it almost incessantly day and night: expecting another exuviation which might be attended with interesting consequences, I felt much anxiety for its survivance. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
• Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
• The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
• The mother I knew during my lifetime was a beautiful and vain woman, one who resisted having a mastectomy for breast cancer because she could not bear to be, as she put it, "mutilated" and "disfigured. We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974
• They were both killed a few days later and their bodies mutilated.
• My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote. Bystanders to Genocide
• The pilot was mutilated in the plane crash and now has only one leg.