shredding
Example Sentences
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A hidden consequence of disasters, distinct from the traumas afflicting each person, was a shredding of “social life that damages the bonds attaching people together and impairs a prevailing sense of communality,” he wrote.
Across 18 months they played some exhilarating cricket, shredding bowling attacks.
From BBC
Handcrafted from an 18th-century original, this grater nestles neatly in a bowl for shredding cheese or vegetables.
Lady Constance simply opened and ripped, opened and ripped, like a human shredding machine.
From Literature
S&W Atlas Iron & Metal had processed scrap metal in Watts since 1949, shredding and baling aluminum cans, steel rims and copper wire.
From Los Angeles Times
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