How to Use mutilate in a Sentence

mutilate

verb

• He was found in a river mutilated and shot in the head.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Be kind to the trees, and refrain from setting up hammocks here, which can mutilate the trees’ bark.
  — Jill K. Robinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
• The young girl’s mutilated body was later found in a creek.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• The killers dragged Rotberg’s body to the other side of the border, where it was found mutilated, its eyes poked out.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
• One mother’s body was found charred, tied, dragged to a boat and mutilated.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• All of the victims had been ambushed and mutilated; many had their throats ripped out.
  — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2020
• In the process, the team had mutilated her neck with syringes in attempts to draw blood samples.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• The sign marking the place where 14-year-old Emmett’s mutilated body was found has been shot at — again.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 6 Aug. 2018
• This isn't the first time cattle have been found mutilated.
  — CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The lower half of his body was mutilated, the driver’s door ripped open, and the reporter lay waiting for help.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
• At least nine girls and women had been raped and mutilated.
  — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
• The genitals of some men who had been killed were mutilated as well.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• She’d been strangled, her left breast sliced away and her body mutilated by cuts.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• The boy was abducted and beaten by white men, who gouged out an eye, shot him in the head, mutilated his corpse and dumped the body in a river.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2017
• In addition to the felony murder charges, Boyce and Spencer are charged with arson and mutilating a corpse, both as a party to the crime.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2017
• Laura: To me, the question is always what would be not the motivation for the aliens to mutilate the cattle?
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
• In the latter case, police suggest the body may have been mutilated by wildlife.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• Becnel also held a knife to a dog and threatened to mutilate it, the report stated.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2020
• He's seen colleagues mutilated, their hands and arms cut, their eyes plucked out for failing to pay these armed groups their share.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• Some spoke of being forced to drink rabbit’s blood at the preschool, of being taken to a cemetery to watch a corpse dug up and mutilated.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• He’d been shot and mutilated in a manner that a cousin said reminded her of a horror movie.
  — Brittany Morris, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Mosques were destroyed, and Muslims were beaten to death in the streets and their bodies mutilated.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• He was so mutilated in the blast that his family was permitted to see him only from the knees down as a farewell.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• The father’s dog, a 75 pound Pitbull mix, was found mutilated in a bedroom.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 19 Mar. 2018
• Her body was found in the sea, mutilated, almost 12 days later.
  — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
• Her body at that point was partly naked, and her exposed breasts appeared to have been mutilated.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• Soldiers raped his 13-year-old sister Khadiza; mobs of Rakhines armed with swords mutilated her body.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Emmett Till’s mutilated body would be on display for all to see.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• The agents watch teenagers self-mutilating and girls recounting rape.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 19 May 2018
• The genitals of both women and men were brutally mutilated, and in some cases weapons were inserted into them.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024