Sample Sentences fordismembergrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
dismember as in: dismember the statue
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Archaeologists carefully dismembered the corroded statue for restoration purposes.dismembered = took apart
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The storm's powerful winds threatened to dismember the old oak tree, leaving broken branches scattered across the yard.dismember = to tear off parts of
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The tiger dismembered the tourist.dismembered = pulled limbs or other parts off of a body
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Atticus saved Dill from immediate dismemberment. (source)dismemberment = bodily attack (in this exaggerating by saying a body part would be cut off)
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It was like watching someone dismember a body, and for the first time in ages, I felt like crying.† (source)
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His dismembered body exploded like a geyser and the screen went red.† (source)
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Fire, dismemberment ....the heat of the sun.† (source)
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Do it or I'll help her dismember you!† (source)
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Aidid's people, including women and children, celebrated by dismembering, disemboweling, and skinning the Pakistanis.† (source)
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what earth sustains His trunk dismember'd, and his cold remains?† (source)
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All these crimes and dismemberments my friends and classmatesfind diminished and neutralized in memory.† (source)
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And now he's sending Dismembers after you?† (source)
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The pictures show organs, including brains, have been stripped—and some bodies dismembered.† (source)
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You are lit up for your own imminent dismemberment.† (source)
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He would track each to its source and dismember it.† (source)
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dismember as in: dismember the organization
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Critics argued that the proposed legislation would dismember the university system by splitting funding across too many separate programs.
dismember = break up
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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.
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dismembered = pulled apart
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