cut to bits
Example Sentences
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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
The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Two sets of reins chawed to pieces; a throat latchet gone; three saddles with holes eaten through them, and two bridles cut to bits, all because of a little carelessness!”
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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 John Alanzo Williams
These were marks of encounters, in which he had been cut to bits and come together again; for this was his peculiarity, which made him so dangerous.
From Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son by Gordon Browne
