Sentence examples for mangled from from inspiring English sources

His massive right hand, with fingers mangled from years on football's lines, gripped the ball perfectly on the seams.

His toes are mangled from years of walking barefoot on prison floors and being held in stress positions, and he walks with a pronounced limp.

And bodies, some of them mangled from the effects of the quake and the bulldozers that worked to clear the area, have begun to be sent to morgues.

Journalists at the scene could hear one loud explosion after another as the attackers apparently detonated their vests; at least six of their bodies, badly mangled from the explosions, could be seen immediately after the police regained control.

The colonel is bedridden, his body weak and mangled from wounds suffered when rebels shot down the helicopter in which he was flying during an operation in southern Colombia.

I didn't want him to see me mangled from the trauma of childbirth, concerned about how the sight might impact our sex life.

That's when he pulled out a mangled envelope from his jacket pocket containing the rings, which he'd carried around all week.

Besides the wall, its ceramic stripped away at the base of a street-level staircase, a handrail was mangled, unhinged from the stairs and tumbling onto the mezzanine, with branches clinging to its bars.

The latest, and most precious, effort to fashion beauty from the barrel of a gun comes by way of the society jeweler James de Givenchy and his collaborators at Fonderie 47, a company in New York that uses mangled steel from weapons seized in African war zones to create jewels and rarefied objects.

Ambulances carry mangled, bloodied bodies from accidents on roads packed with trucks and heavy-footed drivers.

Two blackened metal sculptures, actually mangled guns rescued from the Colt factory fire, sat beside them.