Example Sentences

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Over the past few years, some iPhone users noticed their have texts have become rife with mangled words and strange punctuation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Such gaps are not abstract — they represent real human lives that are lost or mangled.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

"Sitting in a shelter for 16 hours is simply unrealistic," Averina says, as gym staff emerge from the destroyed building with whatever objects they have managed to salvage from the rubble and mangled metal inside.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Once they positioned themselves across from each other, Genie glanced at the yard in front of him, the rickety birdcages all cracked and mangled and peeking from just behind the house.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds