torn down
Example Sentences
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Knicks fans—a combustible bunch at the best of times—were calling for the first-year coach to be fired, for expensive stars to be shipped off, and for the roster to be torn down and reassembled.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
The block is about to be demolished to make way for a gleaming new residential complex, and the mosaic is to be torn down.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
“At the same time as architectural homes are being marketed as high-end, collectible art, others are being torn down to build new,” midcentury modern architecture expert Adriene Biondo said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
In Russia, tsarist monuments were replaced by statues of Communist leaders, which in turn were torn down — statues of Stalin also fell in Hungary, Georgia and Albania.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
It was a squat, two-story structure that was begging to be torn down.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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