6 sentences with 'torn'
Example sentences and phrases with the word torn and other words derived from it.
• « -This is how they ask the mother to nurse them," says Hamilton, showing me the mother's torn lips. It's nothing unusual. The amazing thing is that Tasmanian devils' wounds never get infected. »
• « Even today, I am constantly torn between my desire to hold on to things and my desire to let go. »
• « Millions of people were torn from their homeland, transported to a foreign continent in appalling conditions, and worked to death or killed by their owners in the name of "discipline". »
• « Ivan IV was called The Terrible for his incredible sadism: he had the beggars of Novgorod burned to death, had nobles who displeased him torn to pieces by wolves and dogs, and crushed his own son's skull with a club while he was furious. »
• « In the 1850s, a war (the Crimean War) had torn apart the system of alliances that had been so crucial to maintaining the balance of power after the Congress of Vienna, and Camillo di Cavour knew that he could play one great power against the other for the benefit of Piedmont. »