cut to bits
Example Sentences
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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
The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket.
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Trunk, branches, roots, all were speedily cut to bits.
From Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine by Gail Hamilton
A piece of bacon cut to bits and placed in the nostril often stops it.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
