How to Use lacerate in a Sentence

lacerate

verb

• The broken glass lacerated his feet.
• The patient's hand was severely lacerated.
• The tone is a cross between the lacerating wit of Stephen Colbert and the in-the-weeds wonkery of Ezra Klein.
  — David French, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• For much of the show, the stage was bathed in blue light that was lacerated at times by white spotlights.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 25 Apr. 2018
• What is the record going to be for somebody who gets their heart lacerated?
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2017
• The lawsuit states a deputy placed a gun in Jenkins’ mouth and shot him, lacerating his tongue and breaking his jaw.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 5 July 2023
• The bullet lacerated Jenkins’ tongue, broke his jaw and went out through his neck.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
• The ATV then rolled on top of him, lacerating his liver and collapsing his lung.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 30 May 2017
• The footage, which Jake has to look at but can’t bear to see, lacerates his soul, and his raving agony propels him to take matters into his own hands.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• The attacks had fractured his left leg and lacerated his scalp.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• Gilman was shot in the back; the bullet punctured a lung, lacerated her spleen and a kidney, broke two ribs and lodged 2 millimeters from her spinal cord.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• One room is full of dress forms wearing fur coats whose backsides are splattered and lacerated with paint.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
• Sanabria’s lawyer said the inmates beat him so badly that his skull was fractured, his nose broken and his face lacerated.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 22 May 2018
• For the ensuing movie franchise, the tune has been repeatedly stretched and tweaked—or, in the case of the second film, lacerated by Limp Bizkit.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• Wright argues Lyles used so much force that Xavier’s liver was lacerated in three places and his kidney was damaged.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• Trent has spent a lot of his life minimizing other people and lacerating them in the press — all to create a name for himself.
  — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
• The stabbing had lacerated his spleen, pancreas and kidney, Chen wrote.
  — Hannah Fry, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Chiesa’s face was lacerated and Borg suffered an eye injury.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Within minutes, Gorsuch lay dead on the ground, his body riddled with bullets and lacerated by corn knives.
  — James Delle, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• By contrast, the Red Cross came in for lacerating criticism.
  — Jessica Huseman and Decca Muldowney, Propubulica, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2018
• Migrant children and adults have been lacerated by razor wire installed by the state of Texas that is now at the center of a federal lawsuit.
  — USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• The bullet fired into Jenkins’ mouth lacerated his tongue and broke his jaw, then exited his neck.
  — Michael Goldberg, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Except for one thing: Much of his stump speech lacerates Silicon Valley.
  — Wired, 5 Nov. 2019
• Survivor's Remorse, on the other hand, is a lacerating dark comedy about family and sports and the price of the American Dream.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2017
• These people may have all the money in the world, but as the last four seasons have shown us in vivid, lacerating detail, their cold, loveless lives inspire little envy.
  — Chloe Walker, Longreads, 25 May 2023
• These jets were driven across the kids’ bodies, lacerating their flesh, tearing clothing off their backs; hitting the elm trees in nearby Kelly Ingram Park, the blasts ripped off the bark.
  — Steven Levingston, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2018
• These jets were driven across the kids' bodies, lacerating their flesh, tearing clothing off their backs; hitting the elm trees in nearby Kelly Ingram Park, the blasts ripped off the bark.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• But there are many more angles to come, some of them unusually lacerating.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
• Police assisted the Avon Fire Department in response to a man who lacerated his hand with a table saw at 2:20 p.m. June 2.
  — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
• The bullet went through breast tissue, shattered a rib, lacerated her liver and then exited her body, the lawsuit says.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 11 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024