How to Use tear apart in a Sentence

tear apart

phrasal verb
Definition of tear apartnext
  • But by then the dog was gone, torn apart by the mountain lion.
    — Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • Dozens of homes had slipped out to sea or been torn apart, the rubble strewn from land to shore.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • They’re torn apart if their debut projects fail to enter the top 10.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Next to the gas station, RVs are torn apart, upside down or on their sides.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2024
  • Cancel and Vo were torn apart by the barrage of bullets.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
  • Five bridges were razed, and 3 miles of Main Street were completely torn apart.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Image of You follows their close bond that threatens to be torn apart with the arrival of a lover.
    — Emily Maskell, Vulture, 3 June 2024
  • Lydia’s world, like that of all Ukrainians, is torn apart.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
  • On the state's west side, several homes were flattened, smashed and torn apart.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
  • She’s been getting torn apart ten times worse than Trump on this campaign.
    — Morgan Smith,jennifer Liu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The pull of descending plates can be enough to tear apart a continent.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Nov. 2024
  • So telling the story of an America torn apart through the eyes of a group of journalists made sense.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • This slave sale in 1838 that saved Georgetown tore apart scores of families.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • This is not the first wave of realignment that has torn apart rivalries.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Bake in a cake pan, gently tear apart with your fingers, and serve these pillowy rolls to soak up any juices on your plate.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The 1997 Marlins were celebrated and torn apart in the same moment.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • High levels of wind shear can tear apart an active storm or prevent one from forming in the first place.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • The structure is barely standing; the roof and walls are torn apart, and a neighbor's trailer seems to have landed on the back end of her home.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 17 June 2023
  • The fact that music, like a lot of things of beauty, can be so torn apart, and stolen from us, by dark forces… Robert was very apologetic.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Just five generations ago, African families were torn apart in the name of hate and greed.
    — Keyaira Kelly, refinery29.com, 19 June 2024
  • But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Watson tore apart his house, digging out every flash drive.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
  • If one galaxy is much smaller than the other, it can be totally torn apart.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The show chronicles a family torn apart by war and hatred.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Wheelbarrows were overturned, a hay bail was torn apart and plants lay on their sides throughout the garden in broken pots.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Her legs and arms are cruelly torn apart, and her extravagant dress soaked in red.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The classic story, set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s score, tells of a cursed princess whose romance with a prince is torn apart by an evil sorcerer.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Our world has been torn apart and no matter what happens here today, nothing will ever bring her back.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Their home country was torn apart by raids, and one day Helena didn't return from her studies away from the convent.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a heartbreaking moment in this episode when Solo realizes Juliette will have to tear apart the harmonium to make her breathing apparatus.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024

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