6 sentences with 'tore'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tore and other words derived from it.
• « "My legs! Oh my God! My legs!" Dwayne's anguished cries tore through the silence that followed the collapse. »
• « Its reform movements culminated in the 1909 Revolution of the Committee for Union and Progress, but the World War tore the empire apart before those reforms had time to take effect. And although Turkey entered the world stage as a modern nation, it was a modern nation with the blood of more than a million people on the hands of its leaders. »
• « The Korean War itself tore the country apart, with three million casualties (including 140,000 Americans), and a sharp ideological and economic divide between North and South that only grew stronger in the decades that followed. »
• « We had staged a play on Broadway in free verse..., nothing like Shakespeare. The critics tore us to shreds. »
• « The man next to him has the distant look of someone who has just been saved by a true miracle. The bullet that hit the other passenger only tore his jacket. »
• « I never knew what prompted his change of heart, but I tore up the letter I almost sent him with pleasure. »