tear apart
Example Sentences
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The two proceeded to tear apart each other’s personal and professional lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
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
So this feature could tear apart families is what you’re saying?
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
We bought tacos and ate ’em on a curb between two parked cars, watching these construction guys tear apart an old liquor store and carry pieces of wall to an old dinged-up dump truck.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
