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"Tear" in a Sentence (36 examples)
If he sends me any letters, I just tear them up and throw them away.
If she's not careful she'll tear a ligament doing that.
Why did Bill tear the letter into pieces?
A tear rolled down her cheek.
Why did you tear the cloth instead of cutting it with scissors?
In order to share it, we'll have to tear it into two pieces.
You can tear the box open.
This old building isn't worth fixing up. It would be better to tear it down.
In order to fix this mistake we'll have to tear out this seam.
I cannot shed a tear for that horrible man.
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He tore his coat on the nail.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
He was torn by conflicting emotions.
A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.
His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.
The artillery tore a gap in the line.
Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
[A] surge of muddy water tore him free from his sandy nook and tumbled him down the gully.
The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.
My dress has torn.
He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.
He tore into the backlog of complaints.
I waited to hear no more, but tore up the village to find Poirot.
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown. 24/7 Sylvia Plath.
The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry.
A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
to go on a tear
Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks.
Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on.
I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
'[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children".[…]'
Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears.
Without meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well [...]
Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.
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