Sentence examples for lacerate from inspiring English sources
The word 'lacerate' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe being deeply cut or wounded, typically with ragged edges. Example sentence: His skin was lacerated by the sharp edges of the broken glass.
adjective
Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
- The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
Ms Williams can lacerate setting and character alike in a few slashes: "It was one of those rugged American places, a remote, sad-ass, but plucky downwind town whose citizens were flawed and brave".
The cane, which must be cut back-strainingly close to the ground, contains sharp fibres that lacerate ungloved hands.
Lawrence could be cruel and obsessively jealous, and would use words "to lacerate and destroy".
The attacking soldier makes rapid lunging movements, opening and closing its mandibles in a scissorlike action that can behead, dismember, lacerate, or grip a foe.
Professional mediums attached to a temple or a private cult lacerate themselves in trances.
The categorisation conundrum comes despite stunts involving one pulling a mobile phone from the other's chest, and both using knives to lacerate themselves.
The play, along with a recent biography and documentary, is part a resurgence of interest in Richards, the sassy and plainly passionate governor of Texas remembered for her lacerate-him-with-a-smile takedown of George H. W. Bush — think of "silver spoon," a line so famous that Ms. Taylor doesn't even bother using it in her play — at the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta.
Her pieces varied in mood from lacerating and shocking to playful, comical and celebratory, but for most of her career she grappled with that brutally simple, tortuously difficult question: in the face of so much cruelty and suffering in the world, what are an artist's ethical and political responsibilities?
Greeting one another with the sort of hyperbolic flattery associated with female bonding, they bat away compliments with the requisite self-lacerating retorts.
AS POLITICIANS lacerated it and advertisers withdrew their business this week, the future of the News of the World, Britain's biggest-selling Sunday paper, looked bleak.
It was Lowell who was the roaring, self-lacerating, tragic king of the poetry jungle.These letters are full of delightfully acute observations about literary personalities and tell us much about the art of poetry in America how poets think, behave and suffer.
