torn
Example Sentences
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West End Girl is a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart.
From BBC
Xu, the driver who delivers milk tea and other products, said he was once a hairdresser in his hometown in central China, but the building was torn down.
On the eve of the Civil War, the Columbian Register lamented the growing likelihood of “the stars of our political firmament” being “torn from their orbits, and plunging madly about, or tilting one the other.”
You hesitate for an instant, torn between the invitingly warm lower level and the formidable set of stairs leading upward.
Hurricane Melissa had torn across the island where the British boxer's father, brothers and sisters lived.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
