How to Use dismember in a Sentence

dismember

verb

• The victims' bodies had been dismembered and buried in the basement.
• Tylee had been dismembered and burned; J.J. was wrapped in plastic and bound by duct tape.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Robinson and Aguilar, the complaint says, used a hatchet or ax and a machete-type of knife to dismember the body.
  — Kelsey Bradshaw, USA TODAY, 7 July 2020
• There's the ‘GB 4’ and then there are other victims that were dismembered.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 15 July 2023
• At the same time, much of its history is gone, or dismembered.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2020
• That task was essentially to dismember Ukraine and change the regime in Kyiv, and the force was too small for that purpose.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2022
• The cellmate says Gray also told him that Manor had Ray's body dismembered.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
• Here, the fight ended when Chase’s son shot him, then dismembered his body, police said.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2023
• Wesley Ira Purkey, who raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl and then dismembered, burned and dumped her body in a septic pond.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 25 July 2019
• It’s been over three weeks since Sade Robinson went missing and was later found to be killed and dismembered.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
• Wesley Ira Purkey Purkey raped, murdered and dismembered a 16-year-old girl.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2019
• The camera shows a flash of limbs, some dismembered, some still attached to writhing, screaming bodies.
  — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The two men then used an ax and knife to dismember his corpse, wrapped the pieces in plastic bags, and drove to the Idaho-Oregon border to dump the body parts in the Brownlee Reservoir.
  — Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2022
• Then the gator started to roll, a common predatory move meant to dismember prey.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
• Robinson, 19, was killed and dismembered in early April, a crime that has shaken much of the Milwaukee area.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• Gutierrez's body was dismembered and buried in woods southwest of Eugene.
  — oregonlive, 15 May 2020
• The indictments showed that Conley threatened to dismember her feet and hands.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2019
• The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners is chock-full of crates to search and weapons to violently dismember zombies with.
  — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2022
• Police allege that a man shot, dismembered, and burned his father’s body and his mother aided in the disposal of the body.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2023
• The court documents also accuse Hardy of finding the body in a plastic bin, and helping to dismember and dispose of it.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• Tylee had been dismembered and burned; J.J. was asphyxiated and wrapped in plastic and bound by duct tape.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
• In one scene, Foy’s character declares her readiness to dismember the men who raped her young daughter.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Court documents later revealed that Joshua’s remains had been buried in a pet cemetery and that Tylee had been dismembered and burned in a fire pit.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2023
• Yet after all this sound and fury, will Congress actually dismember the goose that laid the golden egg?
  — Jerry Ellig, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2020
• Court documents later revealed that Joshua's remains had been buried in a pet cemetery and Tylee had been dismembered and burned in a fire pit.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• After the group dismembered, Burruss tried to start a solo career.
  — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2020
• Court documents said that Joshua, who was adopted and had special needs, was buried in a pet cemetery, and that Tylee’s remains were dismembered and burned in a fire pit.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 31 July 2023
• Then, in the early 1990s, the agency was nearly destroyed after being split apart and dismembered.
  — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2023
• Prison massacres have become more frequent in recent years, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people, some of whom were found dismembered.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Other accomplices had planned to dismember the body and bury Munoz, court documents said.
  — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024