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
  • Yet Napoli eviscerated a 2-2 pitch for his 20th homer of the year.
    Maria Torres, kansascity, 14 July 2017
  • 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
  • The divine plan, as seen on TV, is a world in which God designs fiendish plot arcs to eviscerate us all.
    Noah Berlatsky, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Neighborhoods eviscerated on the ground now look like grids of gray ash from the air.
    Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Someone tends to get eviscerated in both, via blade, claw, or zinger.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • This led to a scathing statement from Trump, who eviscerated Bannon.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • When Oprah Winfrey eviscerated him on air for his dishonesty, Nan stood up to her with grace.
    Evgenia Peretz, vanityfair.com, 29 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • For the third time this season, the 38-year-old quarterback eviscerated the Panthers secondary.
    Scott Fowler, charlotteobserver, 7 Jan. 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
  • Jairo was eviscerated in seconds, with his brother about a hundred yards away and helpless.
    Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 26 June 2024
  • On the other hand, Lindsey wakes up feeling uneasy about the way she was eviscerated by Winnie and Tolú at the last voting ceremony.
    Lisa Kwon, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024

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