Mangled is an English word with synonyms like lacerated or torn. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mangled meaning
mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.
Using Mangled
- The main meaning on this page is: mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.
- Useful related words include: lacerate, lacerated, torn, injured.
- In the example corpus, mangled often appears in combinations such as: the mangled, and mangled, badly mangled.
Context around Mangled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mangled
- In this selection, "mangled" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, twisted, lifted, completely, wreckage, wreck and remains stand out and add context to how "mangled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the mangled wreckage alongside and a mangled car has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mangled" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mangled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All the lights and all the fronts are mangled. (9 words)
The mangled Benz bus and the Tipper truck have since been towed away. (13 words)
Meanwhile, emergency crews inched through the mangled remains of passenger carriages in their search for the dead. (17 words)
In the 110th minute, after scrambling to address an errant back pass by center back Jesus Murillo, Crepeau went down for the count with a mangled leg following the first red card of his professional career for taking out the Philadelphia forward. (42 words)
Biden’s best counter-PR strategy would be to demonstrate his mental acuity via interviews on friendly platforms in (very) controlled environments where he can zing Trump with all those debate one-liners he so badly mangled (or just forgot). (40 words)
Ahmad Hazrat, a 26-year-old fleeing the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, is sharing a mangled green charity tent with two friends on the Île St-Louis, the picture postcard island in the River Seine. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A mangled car has been left dangling over a bridge as a passenger escaped by dropping into the canal below.
Emergency services were called to the scene at about 11.30pm, and found 10 bodies in the mangled wreckage alongside 25 guests who were injured, of which one is in a critical condition.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash and found ten bodies in the mangled wreckage alongside 25 guests who were injured, two critically.
Images from the scene show a bus completely gutted by flames, lying on the roadside as a twisted, mangled wreck.
In the 110th minute, after scrambling to address an errant back pass by center back Jesus Murillo, Crepeau went down for the count with a mangled leg following the first red card of his professional career for taking out the Philadelphia forward.
Meanwhile, emergency crews inched through the mangled remains of passenger carriages in their search for the dead.
Mechanical cranes lifted mangled and toppled carriages and emergency personnel cut through the remains of the trains to try to reach trapped victims.
Reyes immediately took his phone out and began recording the situation as the SUV slowly backed out of the cafe, leaving the glass walls completely mangled.
She was rushed to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where a team of specialist surgeons were miraculously able to reattach the mangled digit.
Sitting front and center, Francona sported the navy pullover that has absorbed a season’s worth of sweat, dirt and mangled Dubble Bubble.
The mangled Benz bus and the Tipper truck have since been towed away.
The mangled remains of the two vehicles, with the engine of the near-new Ford Ranger displaced into the cockpit, was testament to the enormous impact speeds.
This image provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, shows mangled vehicles at the scene of crash near Batesville, Texas.
Ukraine’s military and city authorities said 12 others were wounded in the attack, which left a pool of blood on the pavement beside a mangled bus stop.
Video footage from Friday showed rescuers climbing up one of the mangled trains to find survivors, while passengers called for help and sobbed next to the wreckage.
With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds.
Ahmad Hazrat, a 26-year-old fleeing the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, is sharing a mangled green charity tent with two friends on the Île St-Louis, the picture postcard island in the River Seine.
All the lights and all the fronts are mangled.
An orange Holden resembled a mangled wreck after a crash in Oakford, in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Biden’s best counter-PR strategy would be to demonstrate his mental acuity via interviews on friendly platforms in (very) controlled environments where he can zing Trump with all those debate one-liners he so badly mangled (or just forgot).
Common combinations with mangled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mangled 18×
- and mangled 8×
- badly mangled 5×
- mangled remains 4×
- mangled car 3×
- mangled wreckage 3×
- mangled or 3×
- mangled by 3×
- of mangled 3×
- or mangled 3×