Sample Sentences for
dismember
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dismember as in:  dismember the statue

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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 could've been some psycho with an electric carving knife who'd dismember our bodies and wouldn't get caught until our teeth clogged up the sewer or something like that.†  (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.
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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.  (source)
dismembered = pulled apart
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