cut apart
Example Sentences
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Southampton were cut apart and now look bound for the play-offs.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024
Recovery wasn't easy—she experienced a lot of pain in her rib cage, which her surgeons had to cut apart to put in the organs, and she had a brief lymphoma scare.
From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023
In October, crews involved in the salvage will live on one “bubble” — a housing barge — and remain there while the ship is cut apart and the pieces are lifted from the sea.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2020
He assumes they were cut apart to get them out of the building.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019
They cut apart birds to trace the structure of the avian skeleton, and, masked in leather hoods, they dissected a skunk.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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