How to Use mangled in a Sentence

mangled

adjective

• One of his fingers looked mangled.
  — Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
• The family is pretty much a mangled bunch — but that’s what drew me to it!
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
• The story is the same, as teenage neighbors are hunted in their dreams by a mangled man.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• The mangled front part of the car is wrapped around the tree while the back half is on the road about 30 feet away.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
• Images showed the mangled front of the plane lifted into the air and its tail on the tarmac.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Video footage from the outlet shows the ambulance with a mangled front and without any wheels.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 9 June 2025
• One car’s wheels have been removed; another sports a mangled fender.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• Photos show a mangled and burned out building with the bar’s metal sign still sitting atop the caved in patio roof.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Jonas Brodin, playing with a mangled finger, scored on a squeaker and had an assist.
  — Michael Russo, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
• Cut to Liz’s mangled, dead body slumped over, her stomach cut open, and the liver beside her amid pools of blood.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 25 June 2024
• The nose of the aircraft appeared torn off, leaving mangled parts of the front of the plane dangling toward the ground.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
• And the mangled edge of my middle finger can attest to the fact that replacing them is not without risk.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
• The pastor, badly mangled, lies next to the deacon, mother and child, both of whom were killed by shrapnel to the head.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• The driveway gate of the waist-high chain-link fence dividing the front yard from the sidewalk was bent and mangled, lashed to a metal fence pole with white rope.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
• Schjerfbeck uses the rough weave of the canvas to turn Reuter into a husk of himself, with an empty pair of brown eyes and a mangled ear.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• The mangled and charred wreckage of the truck could be seen being hauled away Monday, as crews with heavy equipment worked in the rubble of the collapse.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 13 June 2023
• Here, though, the meter is mainly a lopsided 7/8, the harmony a mangled G major.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• After midnight, one evening in late January, a doctor ushered a young man with a mangled hand into her car and sped to a private clinic on the outskirts of Tehran.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
• The Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are investigating the crash, which tore off the nose of the aircraft, leaving mangled parts of the front of the plane dangling toward the ground.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026