torn

Example Sentences

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Far from the war torn Gulf of Oman, Tom Collins drives his favourite blue tractor through his farmyard, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

From BBC

On its release, BBC music correspondent Mark Savage described West End Girl as "a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart".

From BBC

It was not until the icy February morning that Christoffels stumbled into the dining room with a bleeding cheek and a torn coat that the truth came out.

From Literature

Researchers suspect it could be a remnant of an early planet that was torn apart by massive collisions, or possibly a fragment of a once-layered body that lost its outer rocky shell.

From Science Daily

I must have torn it up in my coat pocket after my interview and then done my best to forget about it.

From Literature