How to Use mutilation in a Sentence

mutilation

noun

• Even body horror buffs will shiver at the scenes of mutilation and murder in the woods.
  — Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
• Even body horror buffs will shiver at the scenes of mutilation and murder in the woods.
  — Emy Lacroix, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• Even body horror buffs will shiver at the scenes of mutilation and murder in the woods.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• Child mutilation is not a parental right and on the contrary, should be criminal.
  — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2025
• Her prison records also reveal that she was sanctioned for drugs and mutilation.
  — Sean Keane, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
• Descriptions of mutilation and murder are blunt, but no blunter than the crimes.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2021
• The bill would have stopped child mutilation, and prevented men from playing in women’s sports.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• The remains of the village’s women and children show signs of mutilation.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2021
• The bill would make genital mutilation of a girl under age 18 a class D felony.
  — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2026
• This would often take the form of ritual mutilation, carried out by the rulers on behalf of their people.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
• But, murder and mutilation aside, most everything that’s done or said is funny — very funny.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• Because there are so many moving parts, his mutilation of those four syllables requires five actors to start their scenes from the top each time.
  — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
• Travelers trying to make it through have reported robberies, corpses, mutilations and rape in the dense forest along the route.
  — Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• The footage then cuts to the character in various stages of mutilation, pre- and post a violent attack.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
• Erby also was convicted of committing mutilation of a body and five counts of burglary.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2025
• But the mutilations continue, as does the pressure to accept them as an act of cultural conformity.
  — Qanta A. Ahmed, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
• From the front, the person is drooling, menacing-looking and has zombie-movie-style facial mutilation.
  — USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• The clerics believe that the practice would not be considered mutilation if done properly.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 23 May 2024
• The mutilation acts are then photographed, video recorded or streamed online and shared with other members of the groups, prosecutors said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
• Erby was also convicted of mutilation and five counts of burglary with the allegation he was armed with a deadly weapon.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
• Barring bloodletting and clothes-rending and ashes on the head, a person in mourning has to undergo a mutilation of some kind.
  — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• Day after day Russian special forces, along with others, would come into her cell threatening her with rape and mutilation.
  — James Levinson, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The Haaretz report threw doubt on the assertions of genital mutilation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
• Latunski pleaded guilty as charged to mutilation of a body and to open murder, which encompasses murder in the first and second degree.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
• There are also culinary delights that aren’t for the faint of stomach, as well as a sprinkle of mutilations and graphic violence that might upset the squeamish.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 May 2024
• Intercut with mutilation shots and moments where his mouth or eyes morph to be covered by the stretchy skin are flashbacks to the handsome actor, face totally intact.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
• Unlike the 1989 case, the recent mutilation is not life-threatening.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Mar. 2024
• Border police have had violent run-ins with members, and the thought of a potential border wall is seen as a travesty here – a mutilation of the land itself.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 24 June 2024
• The first half of the novel affords a devastating look at the death, mutilation and overall destruction witnessed every day by these valiant women.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• The alleged crimes include torture and mutilation, and Heuermann allegedly took notes on the crimes, the targets and measures to avoid detection.
  — Michael Ruiz , Jennifer Johnson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025