tearing

Example Sentences

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But cooking without dairy taught me that you can shift a dish the same way you’d refresh a room: not by tearing everything out, but by changing the color on the walls.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

“I am on the road to complete recovery,” he said, tearing up.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"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 • Mar. 16, 2026

They clipped 13 seconds of him tearing into a Whopper, sauce and a grin splayed across his face, and posted it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

I finally succeeded in tearing the sleeve of my robe.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri