How to Use sunder in a Sentence

sunder

verb
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  • About one-fifth of the core structural columns in each tower were sundered by the planes.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • These practices were sundered with the ascension of Donald J. Trump to the presidency.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • Cherry told other stories from that time: affairs, gruesome deaths, hearts sundered by grief.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Once ties with Rome had been sundered, however, there was little to stop a more decisive break from tradition.
    — Jeff Cimmino, National Review, 28 July 2017
  • When the French officer Alfred Dreyfus was accused of treason in 1894, public opinion was sundered in half.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • During that time friendships have been sundered, garments rended, pearls clutched and block buttons exhausted.
    — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Any move to sunder diplomatic relations again would recreate a long-standing irritant for the region.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Hundreds of students languish at home, still out of school weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in coastal Texas, sundering even sturdy school buildings.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Alanoud Aljalahma, a 22-year-old premedical student, recounts how the rift between the Gulf’s royal clans threatened to sunder her own family.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham are working on an alternative that would send a message to the Saudis without sundering the relationship.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
  • The minds of many viewers will immediately drift away from the fictional narrative and toward the actual events of recent weeks, along the same boundary, where children have been sundered from their immigrant parents and housed in detention centers.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
  • The unprotected noticed, and began to sunder their relationship with establishments and elites.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Unfortunately, the idyllic mood is sundered every so often with tinny canned music blared over loudspeakers attached to lampposts throughout.
    — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • And Melanie Field movingly reveals the conflict her character, Laura, experiences in falling in love with a man who is unbelievably great yet who can’t help sundering her from her gay significant other.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • At the moment, a blockade on land crossings into Qatar mostly threatens food deliveries and sundered families, said the administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
    — Mark Landler and Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • But Wu worries that Beijing’s anger toward Pelosi’s visit may sunder the delicate connections between Taiwan’s business and political elite and mainland leaders.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Whatever else, the ballot will bookend a long-running and visceral argument, confronting Britons with what many depict as an existential choice that has sown division beyond political factions to sunder friends and relatives.
    — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2016
  • No matter what happens in the legal fight, the relationship between Ms. Redstone and Mr. Moonves—until recently characterized by friendly lunches and public statements of support—has likely been irrevocably sundered.
    — Joe Flint, WSJ, 28 May 2018

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