torn-up
Example Sentences
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As a result, entire streets remain lined by shattered houses with yards covered by heaps of the city’s famous red bricks and torn-up trees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
Here’s the key: Midway through their final game, team members reassemble a torn-up sign Ted had created that reads “Believe.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
But their efforts have been stymied by torn-up roads and continuing tremors.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2022
We cannot pack said bird with anything other than stuffing made from torn-up hot dog buns, celery, onion and a whole tube of breakfast sausage — dusted with a few healthy shakes of Bell's Seasoning.
From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022
Even now Luna could remember seeing words like tiny bits of torn-up paper lifting from her heart and hovering just before her eyes and then scattering away, as though caught on a wind.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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