- present participle of rip.
ripping
Example Sentences
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"You can hear them ripping up the road," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some vineyards have been ripping out prized grapes as they sit on unsold bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
That’s when you can think about ripping off the bandage and converting funds to Roth with an eye to the tax rate of the next generation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
"And that's not just writers who continually return to the Greeks and Romans -- the history, the myths, the characters, the events -- that's also readers. These are ripping good yarns."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Dag, I’m thinking, it wasn’t like Char was ripping out the sink.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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