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

I believe the foundation is more solid this time, and I have much more trust in general manager Jerry Dipoto to solidify rather than tear asunder, than I ever did with Jack Zduriencik.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2016

They make the rocks to tremble, they tear asunder the kings of the forest.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)