tear apart
Example Sentences
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Teams just cannot cope with their pace, passing and pressing - and they continue to tear apart any team in their way.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025
Instead, as Merry’s memo charges, the advisers simply helped Yeltsin’s people tear apart their economies.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2024
Egypt warned Israel and the U.S. that any military operations in the zone “could tear apart our peace,” a second Egyptian official said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024
As the love triangle threatens to tear apart their lives, the glamour of bourgeois living proves to be no more than a guise covering their emptiness.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023
They’d done their best to tear apart entire structures, things that made monsters.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
