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
"Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Beware lest we make the confusion that we need the suffrage to help us unmake; lest we tear to pieces that we may patch again.
From Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 by Various
