split open
Example Sentences
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“In the ‘80s, companies kept getting bought and split open, but our story celebrates that fight for opportunity and coming together to build something new.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
A biscuit split open and slathered with strawberry preserves.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
In a five-star review, The Telegraph's Robbie Collin said: "Nolan's portrait of the father of the nuclear bomb is a triumph, like witnessing history itself being split open."
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024
"They've split open, they peeled off, the panels have fallen, they are split open, only metal is left, the ironwork," said Dina Angeli, a local resident in Nea Aghialos.
From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2023
They grew amazingly fast—so fast that their skin split open every few days and they wriggled out of it—“just as a person,” she noted, “pulls off a shirt over his head.”
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
