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
All these are so interwoven that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole; and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate the value of all the parts.
From Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America by Burke, Edmund
