Sentence examples for mangled metal from inspiring English sources

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.

And the rubble itself, mountains of it: homes reduced to grey lumps of masonry, mangled metal, shards of glass.

The other plane, a propeller-driven icon of 1950s air travel, littered a backwater air base on Staten Island with mangled metal and luggage.

From the outside, the Clutha appeared to be intact on Saturday, but the inside was described as a mess of mangled metal, dust and debris.

On Saturday evening, they located and brought up a sixth body despite low visibility and mangled metal, according to a statement issued by the navy.

While N.T.S.B. investigators searched for clues in bits of mangled metal in a hangar on Long Island, Scarry was working with words.

Mangled pieces of metal dotted the roads.

Bombs destroyed two of the three vehicles, leaving only mangled husks of metal.

A mangled mass of metal sits in the center of the area, the size of several football fields, where wrecked motorcycles are piled.

In 2003, the 148-year-old west pier in Brighton was reduced to a mangled mass of metal by two major blazes within two months.

At first, when she looked out of her window, she thought an underground gas main had exploded because she saw smoke pouring up from "this mangled piece of metal".