Sentence examples for small severed from inspiring English sources

He is seen in profile, sitting on a low ledge, contemplating a small, severed hand and foot, all that remains of his daughter after she was killed, dismembered and cannibalized by armed agents of a Belgian rubber company.

GRUESOME is not a word that Bob Brier would use to describe the small, severed brown hand wrapped in linen that was in his office on the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville the other day.

But it soon becomes real — the small severed hand of a child — as Delfont is drawn into a possible crime: A young Indian man named Rajat says that he woke in the middle of the night in his hotel room to find a dead body on the floor.

For the small nation that severed itself from the Czechoslovak federation in 1993, the dissident president of the post-revolutionary years remains an ambiguous figure.

Updated, 2 55 p.m. | An object found on a Queens lawn Sunday night that was initially reported to be a small child's severed foot is not a human foot at all, the medical examiner's office said Monday morning.

When the ascent stage ignited, small explosive charges severed the ascent stage from the descent stage and cables connecting the two were severed by a guillotine-like mechanism.

The recognition was slow in coming, however, and much of his work is still known only to specialists, each grasping a small part of it, severed from its connections with the rest.

Independently, both studies found that numerosity estimates are lower when items are connected by thin lines into larger perceptual objects than when these connections are severed by small gaps.

In southern Iraq, an attack around 9 a.m. severed the smaller of two pipelines running to the country's main export terminal in the Persian Gulf.

As she gets lost in her compulsion, she begins severing small hunks of her own flesh and gnawing on them.

First performed in China in the 1970s, the technique made what was already a safe, simple procedure – a pair of small incisions to sever the duct that delivers sperm from the testicles (the vas deferens) – even more so.