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

I believe the foundation is more solid this time, and I have much more trust in general manager Jerry Dipoto to solidify rather than tear asunder, than I ever did with Jack Zduriencik.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2016

This arises from the incapability of those who occupy such positions to tear asunder the forms which envelope them, and strike a path untrodden for themselves.

From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill