Sentence examples for badly mangled from inspiring English sources

"badly mangled" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiomatic phrase that can be used to mean that something has been severely damaged and is now in an unusable or unrecognizable state. For example, "The accident resulted in the car being badly mangled."

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Many were crushed to death, while others were badly mangled.

"Some were badly mangled after being dragged by raging floodwaters over rocks and other debris.

The child, a boy, was at last forcibly extracted — alive, but very badly mangled.

The corpse was so badly mangled that the police asked the family to view CCTV footage.

The Illinois State Police said the van was dragged several hundred feet and badly mangled.

The photos — self-portraits — show her in a variety of masks, wigs and prosthetic breasts, often badly mangled.

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Our bread board was in his hands, and he used it repeatedly over my head, smashing the board and badly mangling my left hand.

In a nod to her not-so cult favourite turn in Bad Girls, Andie MacDowell takes the Yul Brynner role but badly mangles all those Spanish vowels.

But then he wound into a joke about cowboys in both countries that his translator mangled badly, and that left the audience entirely confused.

An ambulance driver who arrived at the scene about an hour after the strike said he found only the blackened remains of four trucks and eight or nine bodies so badly burned and mangled by the explosion that he could not determine the exact number.

Many of the bodies were too badly burned or mangled to identify immediately or at all.

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