Act of breaking apart a material by force, without the aid of a cutting tool.
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Examples for "torn"
Examples for "torn"
1Are we willing to accept war torn Ferguson as the new normal?
2The water had torn almost all the way to the east side.
3It was torn down in 1984 by the Communist East German government.
4There were dreadful lacerations; the skin was torn in strips and shreds.
5I've been feeling somewhat torn about our meeting in your office today.
1And it's so powerful, it has no problem tearing right through them.
2You see on the news where they've been tearing apart Ghanet's house?
3You cannot uproot all of my work without tearing down every building.
4The effort of tearing open the poly wrapper set my heart pounding.
5I was thrilled when I heard her inside tearing the house apart.
1Attempts to tear open carefully wrapped bundles had succeeded in some cases.
2An invisible world seemed to tear it to pieces in the air.
3Now large numbers are ready to tear away at it... View Article
4And it has no need to tear the flesh from the bones.
5She had told me before he wanted to tear up the family.
1I knew they'd tear apart every word I said in a trial.
2For the dragon-oneof the Five Vektia dragons-couldtear apart creation itself.
3He directed us to tear apart the car looking for anything wet.
4To tear apart this stupid competition and send everyone into a tizzy.
5They're used in the demolition business to tear apart sections of scrapped books.
1He said the world would be torn apart by the Dragon's coming.
2I knew without looking that a sheep had just been torn apart.
3How can America sleep at night when families are being torn apart?
4Then, the far wall was torn apart as if from an explosion.
5Between the two of us we'd torn apart about fifteen hundred reports.
1He directed us to tear apart the car looking for anything wet.
2They're used in the demolition business to tear apart sections of scrapped books.
3He took a slice of bread to tear apart and use as bait.
4The intense heat of re-entry cause this gash to tear apart the shuttle.
5She'd never seen one she hadn't wanted to tear apart.
6They were perfect readers -tearing apart that which was important to tear apart.
7Never had he so desired to crush, to tear apart, utterly to destroy something.
8I'd watched them use those same tools to tear apart the caffè's walls and ceiling.
9Mildred didn't mention her, and anyway, why would Sylvie want to tear apart the bookshop?
10The conflict threatens to tear apart a nation that only became independent from Sudan in 2011.
11This last I had to tear apart and carry away in pieces, it was so heavy.
12I ran toward them and desperately tried to tear apart their bindings with my small hands.
13South Sudan analyst James Copnall investigates the historic enmities threatening to tear apart the world's newest country.
14It is the closest thing we have to a universal solvent, able to tear apart other compounds.
15He'd been furious that I'd hired Zack to tear apart a kitchen Aidan insisted was perfectly acceptable.
16The ship was designed to tear apart small planets and asteroids, mining them of their precious minerals.