How to Use rip apart in a Sentence

rip apart

phrasal verb
Definition of rip apartnext
  • The ship spun and fell against the rocks, which gouged and ripped apart the hull.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The water ripped apart a two-lane road and fences that ran across the top of the dam.
    — Jan M. Olsen, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Her entire world has just been ripped apart and ripped at the seams.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
  • His penance is to pray the rosary — and then rip apart a pillow in the church belfry.
    — Will Swaim, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Tetiana’s leg was ripped apart, and a bullet had torn through his arm.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Its wall was ripped apart and thrown into the river bed.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • With each pass, the star lost more mass while being slowly ripped apart.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Some residents there for months had to camp in tents on the spots where Ian ripped apart their homes.
    — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The album sold poorly, and it was ripped apart by critics.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Their lives were ripped apart in one of the deadliest and most destructive wars of the 21st century.
    — Samar Abu Elouf Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • As Marvel aggressively expanded in the 2020s to fill the Disney+ pipeline, the seams began to show — and then rip apart.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In that constrained space, Powers imagined the wails of families ripped apart, the smells, the bellow of an auctioneer.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
  • This was moments after a war in which many homes were ripped apart beyond repair or belief.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • That’s exactly what happened in Europe this weekend, when the nose of an Airbus jet was ripped apart by an icy storm.
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Over the weekend, several roads and other structures were ripped apart.
    — Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir Bloomberg (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Every single facet of their society has been ripped apart.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Wisely, the directing and producing team (Downey Jr. is a producer) hands him the drapes, the carpet, and the entire household to rip apart.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • That’s actually putting it lightly; his shoelace was ripped apart.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
  • When a star is ripped apart by the gravitational forces of a black hole, what is left of the star is heated so much by the intensity of those forces that a flare occurs.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Many of the children who participated were from countries ripped apart by conflict and war.
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 27 July 2023
  • And when tragedy strikes, their family is ripped apart by sadness and uncertainty.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Kalamazoo County’s Portage area was hard hit as a FedEx facility was ripped apart and more than a dozen mobile homes were destroyed.
    — George Walker Iv, Joey Cappelletti, and Ed White, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
  • Kalamazoo County's Portage area was hard hit as a FedEx facility was ripped apart and more than a dozen mobile homes were destroyed.
    — CBS News, 8 May 2024
  • Because only a woman can love until she’s ripped apart; can speak with the most brutal honesty; can sing with anger; dance in ecstasy and be brought to tears with emotion.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 8 May 2023
  • Once the chalky fungal plug is ripped apart, the infected and disemboweled cicada flies around, raining down fluffy, brown spores.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
  • We were colonized, and we were dominated, and our families were ripped apart.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 1 May 2023
  • Full sun scatters largemouths and emboldens panfish, which rip apart floating crawlers.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • Mobile homes were ripped apart and pickup trucks with shattered windshield were slammed against mounds of rubble in residential areas.
    — David Erickson and Robert Jablon, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • Once again, people engaged in routine activities, like a trip to the supermarket or a Sweet 16 party, had their lives ripped apart by a US mass shooting.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • The demonstrator was carrying multiple signs that ended up getting snatched away and ripped apart by angry Trump supporters.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024

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