cut to bits
Example Sentences
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The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Union artillerymen were cut to bits, and by 3:15 p.m., the disaster that the North was to call the First Battle of Bull Run was all but over.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a woman would allow herself to be cut to bits for her child.
From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
And I don’t want anything that—” he cried out in sudden passion—“Good Lord, I’d be cut to bits before I’d even want anything that wasn’t best for you!”
From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo
She, though living in the Rakshas country, is not a Rakshas, but does not appear to be an ordinary mortal, and when cut to bits by a certain magic knife becomes a tree.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous
