Sample sentences for DISMEMBER

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Definition

to cut or pull off limbs or other parts of a body

or:

to divide into pieces — especially destructively

The tiger dismembered the tourist.

dismembered = pulled limbs or other parts off of a body

The country is being dismembered on ethnic lines.
It was in the Park, on a vile, biting day in March, when the earth was like iron and all the grass seemed dead and there was not a bud anywhere except a few crocuses which had pushed themselves up to be dismembered by the wind.
George Orwell -- 1984

dismembered = pulled apart

Atticus saved Dill from immediate dismemberment.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

dismemberment = bodily attack (in this exaggerating by saying a body part would be cut off)

Scalps were taken, stomachs slit open, eardrums punctured, and genitals dismembered.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Or has Akhilleus by this time dismembered him and thrown him to the wild dogs?
Homer -- The Iliad
It was blood the crowds came for: death, dismemberment, and shrieks of agony, the music of the scarlet sands.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
It's a violent dismemberment.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
Of massacres in distant countries, pregnant women dismembered in the squares.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Swift and coolly businesslike, he dismembered the headless corpse.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
Independent nations have therefore a natural tendency to centralization, and confederations to dismemberment.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
And on the instant rose that terrible distressing scream of acute agony—like that of a woman being dismembered.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
"First we will dismember you," said a Flyboy.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
This case is as clean-cut as this murderer's knife, the knife that dismembered an innocent girl!
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
Fire, dismemberment .... the heat of the sun.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
How they hammered his teeth, cut out his tongue, poked out his eyes, cut his ears off, almost dismembered him.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
You are lit up for your own imminent dismemberment.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
First of all I dismembered the corpse.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Tell-Tale Heart
Where shall I find his corpse? what earth sustains His trunk dismember'd, and his cold remains?
Virgil -- The Aeneid

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