| At least we can say that it is not the only group creatively mangling the language. |
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| Firstly, I apologise to Ira Gershwin for mangling his lyrics to create the title of this article! |
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| How do you get one of these things off without mangling my daughter's clothes? |
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| And they made strides in reversing their reputations for mangling customer service and order fulfillment. |
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| The show was heaped with derision for its mangling of some of the most famous lines in the English language. |
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| Knowingly or not, these critics are mangling the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause. |
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| I have no problem with people mangling the language, making mistakes. |
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| With his talent for mangling meaning out of the simplest sentence, Mr Prescott ruefully admitted that he had grown used to misinterpretation. |
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| She was mangling Whitney Houston songs like no one had ever done before. |
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| The American baseball player, Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, was known as much for mangling the English language as hitting a curveball. |
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| In fact, they are mangling the truth on this issue so much that it is unrecognizable as the truth. |
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| Oronyms result in not so much a mangling as an incorrect parsing of sounds when context or prior knowledge is lacking. |
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| I see that violent crime is out of control in our cities, snuffing out lives, mangling the limbs of the innocent, raising anxiety levels sky-high. |
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| It involves picking a route around hidden ice currents to avoid enormous pressures capable of mangling the hulls of most vessels. |
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| Machine weaving made its breakthrough and suddenly one stood eye to eye with towelling and duvet covers which needed no mangling. |
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| Unless you are trying to filter large bandwidths, you should find this approach superior to in-kernel packet mangling. |
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| Other assertions in Pocket Facts lack any attribution, which avoids mangling sources. |
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| I don't think she liked the way I was mangling her language. |
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| The Plot deftly navigate through jazz, punk, and metal with pinpoint precision, willfully mangling their songs while still retaining a sense of structure. |
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| Schmitt became known for mangling face masks. |
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| Pressing, pleating, blocking, mangling, steaming, creasing, curing, and casting are trade terms for various molding processes in producing clothing and footwear. |
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| Thus America's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, mangling a perfectly good proverb, but being judiciously cautious about a supposed agreement this week by North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal. |
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| This kind of political mangling of government services is deplorable. |
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| Churchill was an admirer of H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of English Usage, to which he would direct his generals when he caught them mangling the language. |
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| So when there actually is something important to announce – the train is on fire, say – no one will hear. This certainly does feel like an open-and-shut case of bureaucrats mangling plain English for the sake of it. |
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| Unparalleled real-time sound mangling via the Melohman Patch Morphing options, and a plethora of triggering options including Monophonic, Polyphonic, Legato and Unison modes. |
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| Gentle drying for temperature sensitive fabrics, easy care drying, memory function for user defined initial dampness levels for laundry mangling, individual adjustments to dryness levels. |
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| This last phenomenon is sometimes referred to as 'the clbuttic effect', named in honour of the mangling of the word 'classic' by over-zealous obscenity filters. |
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