Sentence examples for mangled about from inspiring English sources

There were people, chairs, tables mangled about in the compartment... power cables all buckled down as you stepped off the train".

"What was that thing wet with blood, mangled, about the size of Bedi's fist?" he remembers thinking.

Even our next president, Donald Trump, perpetuates mangled concepts about black people that we all "live in hell," violent communities filled with "gangs roaming the streets".

It's what happens when your mangled thoughts about your relationship's potential demise start to mangle the relationship itself, which starved of the space it needed to blossom into the shape it was meant to curls up, dries out, and goes gentle into that good night instead.

So after the attacks on Paris and Beirut – after I thought once more about mangled metal and mangled bodies and the overall mangled-ness of our species, and after France immediately launched retaliatory airstrikes – I thought of the survivors in Paris, and the survivors in Beirut and the civilians trapped and in danger in Syria.

(He once mangled the proverb about revenge being a dish best served cold, saying, "Revenge is like serving cold cuts").

They represented a readership far less likely to have come across, say, the annual men's-magazine features about mangled knees, wayward fingers, and back braces, which had hardened almost into a sportswriting trope.

I'm the kind of person that loves to tell stories from my own life, and I've mangled a column about weed culture into my own channel for anecdotes that I have fun relating.

By now it's indisputable that the Bush administration massaged all sorts of intelligence about Iraq, mangled the law in the treatment of detainees and outright ignored the law in authorizing warrantless wiretapping.

I have no more qualms about mangling a quotation than I do about using like a wrench as a hammer.

In a fall 2002 report about J.Lo, Mr. Smith mangled a phrase on the teleprompter into a vulgarity.