tear asunder

Example Sentences

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But what the Legislature put together, opponents attempted to tear asunder.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Or, alternate thought: Even such a beautiful, loving, nuanced thing as a marriage that only death could tear asunder can get trounced in a feelings pageant against new love.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

Denton’s professed goal was to tear asunder the establishment’s secret arrangements and self-dealing, to explode hypocrisies.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016

Larry Stone believes the foundation is more solid, and he has much more trust in general manager Jerry Dipoto to solidify rather than tear asunder, than he ever did with Jack Zduriencik.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2016

The power that was before expended in causing the drop to move, would be now employed in striving to tear asunder the substance of the string.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Chambers, Robert