Sentence examples for mangled pieces from inspiring English sources

Mangled pieces of metal dotted the roads.

The blast shattered his right leg, cocking it sideways below the knee and leaving mangled pieces of foot hanging loosely from flesh and bone.

Standing next to mangled pieces of steel from the World Trade Center that were mounted like dinosaur bones in a museum, federal officials announced today at a research campus here outside Washington that they were beginning a two-year, $23 million investigation into how and why the twin towers and a third skyscraper collapsed in raging fires on Sept. 11.

Students huddling in the slush outside the charred building, where red carnations left in memory of the dead rested on mangled pieces of metal, described haphazard rescue efforts by emergency workers who distinguished the dead from the living with a tap on the chest.

Standing next to mangled pieces of steel from the World Trade Center, federal officials announced that they were beginning a two-year, $23 million investigation into how and why the twin towers and a third skyscraper collapsed in raging fires on Sept. 11.

They come from different worlds, but their presence gives a strange momentum to these mangled pieces.

By some people's standards, this is a mangled piece of body art, not pretty and not sexy.

— Carrying a presale estimate of $400, a mangled piece of Oceanic Airlines fuselage — immediately identifiable to any fan of "Lost" — came up for bids here on Saturday.

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".

Flinching from the tsunami of cultural histories out now about the anxious, acquisitive female soul of 20th-century America, I have an image of a bewildered librarian doling out the same mangled piece of microfiche showing a face-powder advertisement from a turn-of-the-century issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

Failing to do so in any of these cases will result in a broken play, a lousy cake or a mangled piece of plywood.