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
• The young girl’s mutilated body was later found in a creek.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• 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
• The genitals of some men who had been killed were mutilated as well.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• In one video, fighters appear to mutilate the corpse of a female Kurdish fighter.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 24 Oct. 2019
• Large crowds of white people would watch as black victims were tortured, mutilated or burned at the stake, according to the EJI.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
• The body of Kellogg alone remained unstripped of its clothing, and was not mutilated.
  — Patrick Springer / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
• Most victims were poisoned and mutilated, with their heads, paws, and other parts cut off.
  — Laurel Neme, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2017
• Russia has pummeled the city for more than seven months, reducing it to a charred and mutilated ghost town.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• But Ivey said that fish was mutilated only after the fight was over, when the fisherman were hauling it into the boat.
  — Brandon Sneed, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• She had been beheaded, her head nowhere to be seen, and mutilated, her body almost severed in two.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• The saloon owner would romance the women and then kill them and mutilate their bodies, a 1981 story in the San Antonio Light said.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024