tear to pieces
Example Sentences
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To defend his shattering of the rules, he will have to “cancel and tear to pieces that great bond” that makes civilization possible in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
The sort of thinking data mavens love to tear to pieces.
From Forbes • Feb. 24, 2012
You may doom us a thousand times and yet the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History will tear to pieces the indictment of the State prosecutor and the sentence of this Court!
From Time Magazine Archive
"Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?"
From Time Magazine Archive
But this authority preserves from a thousand misfortunes which embitter every part of every man's domestic life, and tear to pieces the dearest lies in human society.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
