Then the skull was sawed open, and the brain, too, was removed.

The scars, from where his head was sawed open, still show.

Previously, suspicious bats were sawed open, which understandably upset players, who generally treat their bats like favorite children.

The sternum was found to have been sawn open from top to bottom, permitting removal of the king's heart after death.

Frankly, I'd never have had to steal the mummy case if my father hadn't glued the secret hiding place shut so tightly it has to be sawed open.

Salmon sucked from a fjord are sawed open, eviscerated and vacuumed clean in seconds.

Some of her larger scenes were based on abalone shells, or conch shells sawed open.

On a separate table lay a collection of heads, skulls sawed open to extract the brains.

Closer at hand, the top of Gerald Clark's skull had been sawed open, exposing the brain beneath.

A bat was shipped to the league office in New York, where it was X-rayed and sawed open and determined to have been corked.