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Example sentences for "lacerating"

Lexicographically close words:
lace; laced; lacelike; lacerate; lacerated; laceration; lacerations; lacerum; laces; lacework
  1. The branches of this tree are articulated, that is, they may be broken off at the joints without lacerating the bark.

  2. The leaves are smooth and shining; and they are articulated; that is, they can be separated from the petiole or footstalk without lacerating them.

  3. Lacerating the flesh at death was expressly forbidden in the Jewish dispensation.

  4. I was on the eve of revolting, but I remembered what there was lacerating his poor breast, and consented.

  5. But I could afford no words for her, so cruelly was misery lacerating me.

  6. Within a yard of where I stood a carriage-wheel passed over a dog, lacerating him in such a way that he died in a few minutes.

  7. To see that they do not tread on sick children, as they used to do, and to prevent the devotees from lacerating themselves.

  8. These said that the choir would keep up their lacerating attempts at melody until they would bring down a storm some day that would sink the ship.

  9. He turned and retraced his steps at a run, breaking through the jungle in his feverish haste, tearing the vines and brambles aside and lacerating his hands and face with the thorns.

  10. Briars and vines slashed him across both face and hands, lacerating the skin.

  11. Or everybody would be whispering a series of witty pasquinades, attributed to Antistius Sosianus or Fabricius Veiento, full of lacerating innuendoes, aimed now at the Emperor and now at some prominent senator.

  12. There it had splintered up and made a frightful wound, scattering its fragments all over the chest, and cutting and lacerating everything in its way.

  13. It held him on the threshold, unmoved by the rushing assault and lacerating bark of the little dog, who resented his intrusion.

  14. It was from Emmeline that those lacerating screams arose.

  15. One sentence of that letter keeps sharp its lacerating point for the reader of to-day.

  16. We know not where, in all our literature, to find matter like this, so bedewed and steeped in tenderness, so swift in its alternations between lacerating details and soothing suggestions.

  17. All the pleasures of life seem to have been destroyed, he can only feel the sharp barbs of a lacerating despair.

  18. Julien's impassive coldness intensified the anguished pride which was lacerating the soul of mademoiselle de la Mole.

  19. The course of the missile was from behind forward and outward, striking the bone on the posterior surface, causing a fracture with fragmentation, and lacerating the wound of exit with fragments of bones and with its own deformation.

  20. But for all that she could not help indulging in a woman's pleasure of recreating defunct agonies, and lacerating herself with them now and then.

  21. A lacerating suspicion that the authorities were in favour of an acceptance pierced like a dart.

  22. What could be more lacerating to the dignity of nineteen years.

  23. Westmoreland speaks of a man who was pressed between two cars, and sustained a fracture of both collar-bones and of the sternum; in addition, six or eight ribs were fractured, driven into and lacerating the lung.

  24. Gibb speaks of a woman, about eight months pregnant, who fell across a chair, lacerating her genitals and causing an escape of liquor amnii.

  25. As though he would say: "I am worrying you, I am lacerating your hearts, I am keeping everyone in the house awake.

  26. Lucian declares that the beating of the breasts, lacerating of the cheeks, pouring of ashes on the head and knocking the head upon the ground always occurred, so that the living were more to be pitied than the dead[120].


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacerating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.