shot to pieces
Example Sentences
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Ibrahima Konate looks shot to pieces and has been all over the place in the last two games.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025
"His health was already shot to pieces and it became clear he would never be called up to fight in the war. I think he saw the BBC as a form of war work."
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2017
The conceding of three goals in 18 minutes suggests that Bournemouth are psychologically shot to pieces having achieved the monumental tally of 38 points in the Premier League.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2016
Who, seriously, would be taken aback now if Villa, confidence shot to pieces, could not clamber out of the Premier League's quicksands?
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013
They were boys and men past middle age, and two veterans who had been shot to pieces in Russia.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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