tear asunder

Example Sentences

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But what the Legislature put together, opponents attempted to tear asunder.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Or, alternate thought: Even such a beautiful, loving, nuanced thing as a marriage that only death could tear asunder can get trounced in a feelings pageant against new love.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

Denton’s professed goal was to tear asunder the establishment’s secret arrangements and self-dealing, to explode hypocrisies.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016

Larry Stone believes the foundation is more solid, and he has much more trust in general manager Jerry Dipoto to solidify rather than tear asunder, than he ever did with Jack Zduriencik.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2016

Nevertheless, I could say a great deal more, and should be able to prove to you that you separate and tear asunder several genera nearly related to each other.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William