torn

Several of her books involve love triangles in which a woman is torn between two men, one of whom readers will recognize as patently unsuitable before her protagonist does.

In the hours leading up to Schlittler’s start on Thursday, the officers his dad leads were torn.

The orthopedist said it was a torn muscle.

The interior looked like it had been torn up by raccoons.

Instead, she has to corral a denomination increasingly torn between conservatives, many in Africa, and liberals, particularly in the U.S.