Examples of dismember in a Sentence

The victims' bodies had been dismembered and buried in the basement. quickly dismembered the old toolshed and hauled it off to the dump

Recent Examples on the Web According to Turkish authorities, that’s the implement that Mohammed’s henchmen allegedly used on Oct. 2, 2018, to dismember Jamal Khashoggi, a Post columnist and Saudi dissident. — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022 America’s current adversaries seek first to destabilize and then to dismember the liberal-democratic international order. — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 Philadelphia-area authorities have arrested a man for allegedly beheading his girlfriend with a machete and attempting to dismember her body, according to police. — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2022 The missteps of law enforcement left Robert Durst free to murder Berman in 2000 and one year later, kill and dismember his neighbor Morris Black in Texas, Abrams said. — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2021 On his second wave, Kemper displayed absolute mastery of his own fear by willfully soaring inside a tube the size of a whirling subway tunnel and frothy enough to dismember a horse. — Daniel Duane, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021 Sakara was just one of the Last Call Killer’s victims, who seemed to meet men in and around the West Village gay bar scene only to murder them and dismember their bodies. — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021 Police also located the weapon believed used to kill Emily Ferlazzo and the saw used to dismember her. — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2021 Other accomplices had planned to dismember the body and bury Munoz, court documents said. — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2021 See More

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