How to Use mangle in a Sentence

mangle

verb

• Limbs sometimes bend in ways that would mangle your own legs.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2021
• On the hood sat my key — mangled from being run over, but there.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
• Some have been mangled in the washing machine or burned in the dryer.
  — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Otherwise, the bike will fall onto your leg and mangle your flesh.
  — Emma Brewer, The New Yorker, 22 June 2021
• But nobody is calm when a 50-pound catfish is mangling their hand.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
• Trees along the property were mangled.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
• After the game, his face was mangled, with a cut across the bridge of his nose and what looked like a rug burn on his chin.
  — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• Chopper 4 was on the scene where a white car was flipped over and completely mangled.
  — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 26 May 2026
• The attack had left one of his legs mangled and necrotic, with the bone badly exposed.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• The girl’s features rearrange and for a split second her whole face looks mangled.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• Many, to mangle Shakespeare, are not born to chair but have chairing thrust upon them.
  — Kevin J.h. Dettmar, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2021
• The tail strike accident mangled the bottom half of the bulkhead.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Bruce, my sincere apology for 40 years of mangling your songs in the car.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
• Collisions mangled the frames of four chairs, and Wade called timeout.
  — Matt Higgins Jalen Wright, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• The hood of the SUV was mangled, and the glass front door of the mini-mart was wrecked.
  — Lou Kleinberg, CBS News, 17 June 2026
• In all three crashes, police noted the guardrail was either already mangled or down.
  — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
• The car was mangled beyond recognition.
  — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
• VIPs sometimes mangle the name, and at times, higher-ups in the same offices aren’t on the same page.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• The balloon was shredded, the basket was mangled and Sullivan was hooked on the sport.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• Her left leg — mangled in the airstrike that killed her brother, sister and mother — was held in a cast buttressed by metal joints and rods.
  — Marc Smith, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Shakespeare has been mangled out of all recognition several times.
  — Henry Oliver, National Review, 28 Feb. 2023
• Photos from the scene show the side of the CSP cruiser mangled with the airbags deployed.
  — Austen Erblat, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
• Giant pumps that send water south through aqueducts mangle the critters or draw them into the grasp of lurking predators.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• The tornado also mangled a cotton warehouse and ripped the steeple off a Baptist church.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
• But to mangle a medical metaphor, exposure to AI is by no means fatal.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
• Trampolines and children's scooters mangled by the extreme heat.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2023
• And there has been speculation that the high fronts of these vehicles are more likely to mangle a pedestrian.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2022
• On Sunday, a few shattered carriages, mangled and overturned, were the only remnants of the tragedy.
  — Krutika Pathi, Sheikh Saaliq and Ashok Sharma, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
• The explosion mangled the overhead door to the parking garage so badly that firefighters had to pry it open and prop it up with wooden beams.
  — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Photos from the scene show the front of the restaurant mangled and debris on the ground while emergency services bring people out of the building.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 22 June 2023