pull to pieces
Example Sentences
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As his hand moved with intent, hers moved innocently; her fingers began to pull to pieces the little yellow flower she had plucked; and he had not the courage to essay it twice.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
I know of none—except indeed as to—” Rolf stopped to peel off, and pull to pieces, some of the bark of the pine trunk on which he was sitting.
From Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" by Harriet Martineau
He tried to pull to pieces, destroy, and discredit the evidence that had been given in; but all to no purpose.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Tease, earlier toose, means to pluck or pull to pieces, hence the name teasel for the thistle used by wool-carders.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
It was too insecure to pull to pieces.
From Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
