Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindled
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Hands are stabbed, feet are liquidated, fingers are severed, bodies are impaled (at one point an entire butcher block of kitchen knives has to be used to subdue Todd), an ear and a nose are bitten off, shotgun holes are blown into faces, and prison rape is treated as a parlor game.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026 -
The few Alawite religious leaders who dared to remain in Aleppo and resist were captured, impaled on metal spikes, and displayed in public squares.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
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The second man, a friend of the first, tried to help him and Halaska stabbed him twice in the chest, prosecutors said.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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An ensuing investigation determined that the victim was in a confrontation with three teen boys and that one member of the group pulled out a knife and stabbed him.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The word mom speared out of her mouth.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
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Vecna gets speared, the monster goes down, the creepy heart stops beating and everyone's alive!—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
31 Dec. 2025
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Standing right behind the decoy, the bird cautiously sized up George, pecked him on the head, then jumped and used his spurs to knock George to the ground.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
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The muscular gizzard contains grit pecked up from the chicken’s ground feeding, which is used to crush up the chicken’s food.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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His savior was the experimental documentarian Harun Farocki, famous for provocative works that skewered bourgeois complacency.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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The setting of Lemoncurd, which skewered cookie-cutter suburbia and the bonkers priorities of the upper-middle class, made even the moments of gross-out comedy cute.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Some are demanding change And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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Yet the reveal that people were still alive out there punctured all that.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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The casting director playfully jabbed Anderson in her acceptance speech, referencing the filmmaker's 14 career Oscar nominations without a victory.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
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Physical abuse reports involve workers being jabbed with kitchen tools, pushed and punched in the face and stomach by chef René Redzepi and others under him who adopted his management style and culture.—
Shindy Chen
March 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Mar. 2026
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By the end of the story, characters have been shot, pierced by arrows, gored by a deer, and nearly burned to death in a barn fire.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Mar. 2026
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In 2024, an 83-year-old woman was severely injured after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said.—
Jessica Mekles,
FOXNews.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Spindled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindled. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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