Sentence examples for had mangled the rules from inspiring English sources

Worse, much worse, the French state had mangled the rules of the French language by recognising an abomination like the double hyphen.

Indeed, Politico posted a story last Friday by Ben Smith pointing out exactly how badly you had mangled the facts.

That might have little to do with the way they have mangled the language.

The coalition has mangled the legislation with so many concessions that even many reformers now suggest abandoning it.

A teen-age girl collapsed screaming; the explosion had mangled her legs.

Holmes' lawyer argued that the South Carolina court had mangled its own precedent in holding that Holmes' evidence was inadmissible.

"You're sorry, but tell that to my toe, the one you might have mangled".

"The bastards, don't tell me they've mangled your brains".

Ideally, a proper arthouse film should have mangled subtitles.

Poorly executed technology projects have mangled its inventory channels.

There is already much whining about the goofy truncated vocabulary of e-mail and text messaging (a phenomenon Mr. Lynch sees as good news, not bad; to mangle the rules of grammar, you first have to know the rules).