mangle
Example Sentences
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To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.
From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2023
Giant pumps that send water south through aqueducts mangle the critters or draw them into the grasp of lurking predators.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023
If others want to mangle their feet and suffer back problems, that is their business.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022
Then I mangle a “merci” and step between the tables, each crowded with young tech workers speaking in euphonic blends of French and English, to a stool by the window overlooking the crowded street.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
Thanks to his studies in London, Headmaster often shifted back and forth between Bangla and English, but he always seemed to mangle English proverbs and expressions.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
Vocabulary lists containing mangle
Ghost
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