cut to bits

Example Sentences

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The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Union artillerymen were cut to bits, and by 3:15 p.m., the disaster that the North was to call the First Battle of Bull Run was all but over.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the French guns had been too many and too good for ours, and our heavy horse had been cut to bits, so that things were none too merry with us.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

At once the axe began to chop, now right, now left, and up and down, and in an incredibly short time that immense tree was cut to bits.

From The Magic Soap Bubble by Jones, E. I.

“Two sets of reins chawed to pieces; a throat latchet gone; three saddles with holes eaten through them, and two bridles cut to bits, all because of a little carelessness!”

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth