tearing

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the August 5, 2025, print edition as 'The Teenagers Tearing Up The 100-Meter Race'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 2, 2025

Tearing up when he testified earlier this month, he said he’d not only lost money but trust.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Tearing down the dams is a first step in “a new era of healing,” Bowers Cordalis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

Tearing up money as a provocation has been used in particular by fans of clubs from Brazil and Chile.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2023

Tearing into a fast-food hamburger—big, brown, and greasy.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs