tear down
Example Sentences
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“You’ve been tearing down that road, hardly looking back. You know you’ve hurt us. Hurt me. Abandoned me. And it always seemed like you were fine with it.”
From Literature
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He had no right to unilaterally tear down part of the White House.
From Salon
"We want traffic slowing down a bit – there's a school there and there's a care home here on the left, and the traffic comes tearing down here".
From BBC
But simply tearing down a statue or tearing down an empty building doesn’t change this underlying system.
From Salon
They’d tear down the roof of the Neely house and pound at the beam until it splintered in over the hearth.
From Literature
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