How to Use eviscerate in a Sentence

eviscerate

verb

• Now is the time to build on the CWA’s progress, not to eviscerate it.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
• But at some point, if the rule of law is eviscerated in that process, the whole system topples.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
• Clayton Kramer is the guy who eviscerated a book by Michael Bellesiles that turned out to be a fraud.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
• Kawhi Leonard eviscerated Golden State’s switch-heavy defense to the tune of 36 points and 12 rebounds.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
• There is also the sense of an attempt to eviscerate anything Barack Obama did.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• Her eviscerating barbs earned her the nickname Mean Miss Charles among the neighborhood kids.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Fox has argued that a loss will eviscerate press freedoms, and many scholars agree that the bar should remain high to prove defamation.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• But the Democrats’ turnout advantage in the past year’s special elections put a dent in that hope — and the leftward lurch of elderly whites all but eviscerates it.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Apr. 2018
• The bad news is there's a chance that Warren, who is in the top tier of contenders, and Klobuchar, who is eager to stand out, could eviscerate him by dint of comparison.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 26 June 2019
• Axios even released a list of the senators who were most likely to eviscerate the Facebook CEO.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2018
• Over the past five years, the company has acquired the dregs of the dot-com economy that Facebook and others eviscerated.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
• The Supreme Court eviscerated the authority of the law and of the legislature to pass such a federal law.
  — Amanda Nguyen, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Voting Rights Act has been eviscerated, starting in 2013.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• When Kim eviscerated Kourtney for not having her app ready to launch with the other sisters.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2018
• The same voices who lauded the talent will eviscerate without a second thought.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• To me, the more troubling thing, the more painful thing, is an entire approach to governing is just being eviscerated.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 June 2018
• The experience eviscerates the caretaker’s soul in a way that words cannot describe.
  — WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• David was consequently eviscerated in the press, with one paper printing a full-page dartboard with his face at the bull’s eye.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
• Leonard had been special for a long time before eviscerating Harden in March 2017.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• Around him are the students from other teams who don’t have anywhere else to go after getting eviscerated by the power schools.
  — Luke Winkie, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2019
• Now Mossad asks Skorzeny to eviscerate Nasser’s program from the inside.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 May 2022
• Executives also tried to get a scene from the movie removed where a teenager eviscerates Barbie to her face.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 July 2023
• He was eviscerated by Harris on issues of race, despite his defense of his record.
  — Aric Chokey, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• The train car had been eviscerated, its seats stripped down to their metal springs, its ceiling peeled back to expose a layer of insulation.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Of course, by spank, Billy really means eviscerate them in the most brutal way possible.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2019
• Instead, the GOP is still talking about budget cuts and a plan to engineer a debt ceiling standoff in order to eviscerate the social safety net.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• As a good-time gal with a heart of gold, Knight’s comic timing was spot-on whether eviscerating her paramour with insults or offering off-kilter advice to a novice nun.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Announcing in the most physically out-of-touch manner—not in his home state, nor even a swing state, but on a website famously eviscerated on the back end.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Athena2023 sent out a Lunala, a demonic purple-and-white bird with scythes for wings, which proceeded to eviscerate three straight Pokémon in an attack called Moongeist Beam.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2023
• Trump got eviscerated for his handling of the pandemic (rightly so).
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024