How to Use eviscerate in a Sentence

eviscerate

verb
  • It had been eviscerated and dressed out like a deer.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Someone tends to get eviscerated in both, via blade, claw, or zinger.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Who cares you were eviscerated at the polls and recently quit your job?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Neighborhoods eviscerated on the ground now look like grids of gray ash from the air.
    — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • But at some point, if the rule of law is eviscerated in that process, the whole system topples.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Now is the time to build on the CWA’s progress, not to eviscerate it.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Leonard Maltin pans the movie — in the middle of the movie — and gets eviscerated for it.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Land and water at risk Home rule is eviscerated.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The real truth is that lying is not eviscerated.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Yet Napoli eviscerated a 2-2 pitch for his 20th homer of the year.
    — Maria Torres, kansascity, 14 July 2017
  • The pair head out to a fancy tourist bar to get drunk and verbally eviscerate the rich, out-of-town bros that attempt to pick them up.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The same voices who lauded the talent will eviscerate without a second thought.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Fox has argued that a loss will eviscerate press freedoms, and many scholars agree that the bar should remain high to prove defamation.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
  • First, an animal’s carcass is found, eviscerated in a way no predator could.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The fires eviscerated many of the plants and trees in and around the burn zones, leaving behind barren lots and charred swaths of parkland.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • There is also the sense of an attempt to eviscerate anything Barack Obama did.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • The experience eviscerates the caretaker’s soul in a way that words cannot describe.
    — WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • If the Lions just played straight man coverage across the board, they would have gotten eviscerated.
    — Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Between the black skeletons of still-standing trees, black burn holes showed where the root systems of others had been eviscerated.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Clayton Kramer is the guy who eviscerated a book by Michael Bellesiles that turned out to be a fraud.
    — Nr Staff, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Around him are the students from other teams who don’t have anywhere else to go after getting eviscerated by the power schools.
    — Luke Winkie, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2019
  • To me, the more troubling thing, the more painful thing, is an entire approach to governing is just being eviscerated.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 June 2018
  • David was consequently eviscerated in the press, with one paper printing a full-page dartboard with his face at the bull’s eye.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
  • When Kim eviscerated Kourtney for not having her app ready to launch with the other sisters.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2018
  • When Oprah Winfrey eviscerated him on air for his dishonesty, Nan stood up to her with grace.
    — Evgenia Peretz, vanityfair.com, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The event was eviscerated in The New York Times the following day.
    — Michael Nied, People.com, 6 May 2025
  • Her eviscerating barbs earned her the nickname Mean Miss Charles among the neighborhood kids.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
  • They’ve been eviscerated when Embiid, George or Maxey are on the floor.
    — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • My hope is that judges will be very, very careful about a systemic creep that totally eviscerates the purpose and intent of the establishment clause.
    — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Over the past five years, the company has acquired the dregs of the dot-com economy that Facebook and others eviscerated.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019

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