How to Use teardown in a Sentence

teardown

1 of 2 noun
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  • Step 9 of the teardown shows soft glue pulling away as the base is lifted off the site.
    — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • For the cost of an L.A. teardown, why not buy a historic castle in France?
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The couple did not even entertain the idea of a teardown.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • The offensive line has been up-and-down, but the Vikings don’t need a complete teardown in that area.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • As with prior teardowns, the site gave the phone a repair rating.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2019
  • This is not the first time that building disputes have led to demands for a teardown.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
  • The veterans who survived the teardown are in their prime.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Across Charlotte, the teardowns show no signs of slowing.
    — Ely Portillo and Gavin Off, charlotteobserver, 19 July 2017
  • And the Astros have again risen after a teardown of their roster that broke Navarette's heart.
    — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The three wood buildings that cater to the needs of boat owners and house some storefronts are also teardowns.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But the rise of teardowns isn’t just because of old-fashioned bathrooms.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Reza said that the teardown-worthy condition of the property was one of the things that drew him.
    — Kavita Daswani, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • When the home was listed—and marketed as a teardown—Mr.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The teardown of the current facility could open up about 30 acres of land.
    — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Popovich, who is 69 and probably will not be around to reap the rewards of a complete teardown, is one.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
  • The Jazz have completed a total teardown of their team.
    — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The debate is likely to persist, as the pace of teardowns and rebuilds shows no sign of abating.
    — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 25 Oct. 2017
  • But this front office went for a long-term teardown anyway.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • But the Forsythe move stood alone — one the front office saw a one-off trade of talent for talent — and the large-scale teardown never came.
    — Dave Sheinin, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • Other would-be buyers viewed the modest old house as a teardown.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • Bourgoin’s story wasn’t so much a house of cards as a total teardown.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Finally, two years too late, Hahn began a teardown of a bad club.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Certainly, the Orioles’ rebuild has a long way to go; heck, the teardown still isn’t complete.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • That was a polite way of saying his swing didn’t need a few splashes of fresh paint or a kitchen remodel, but a teardown to the studs.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • The roughly 9,000-square-foot home is in good condition but could be a teardown, as many homes in the area are larger and more modern.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • The Pacers’ first-round pick in 2015 has remained with the team from playoff seasons to its most recent teardown.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2022
  • One player — much less an 18-year-old — cannot end a total teardown rebuild like this.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
  • These days, properties on Meadow Lane sell in the tens of millions; a teardown on the strip sold for $35 million last year, records show.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The possibility of an A’s teardown made its rounds through the lobby and halls of the Omni in Carlsbad, site of the meetings.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Kelly faces his own issues starting Year 3 of a rebuild that has felt more like a teardown.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
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tear down

2 of 2 verb
  • The field was torn down in 1958, after the team was sold.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The craze had cooled off; many of the giants were torn down and tossed aside.
    — Conor Knighton, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The Highland Drive house was torn down about a month ago.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The school will tear down low-rise apartments that have served UCSD since the mid-1970s.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
  • In 2019, a group tore down the street relaxing on a leather loveseat on wheels.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Today, most of the old windmills have been torn down or left to rust out on the prairie.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Casinos have been torn down, built back up, bought and sold.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Later, these tractors would be used to tear down the fence and open the way for Hamas’s death squads.
    — Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The tribe tore down the building and removed the parking lot in favor of a grassland.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • The smaller Copco No. 2 Dam was torn down last year as the project began.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • In August of 1978, the original sign was torn down, and the hillside was bare for three months.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • My cutout of that has a tear down the middle from being weathered and treasured.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2021
  • How can anyone prove, skeptics ask, that a forest would have been torn down if not for the project?
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • The Burger King closed several years ago and the building has since been torn down.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In 2010, part of the cliff fell out from under an apartment building, which had to be abandoned and then torn down.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • In their grief, Grigg's family decided to tear down the post office and leave the town.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
  • It was then shot over 27 days at an empty school that was about to be torn down in Hamburg, Germany.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But over time, those houses were torn down and replaced with larger dwellings.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2023
  • Housing projects just east of the L.A. River where Saenz once lived — and allegedly killed — had been torn down.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The three-story house in Moscow, Idaho, was torn down in under two hours.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Hall Group tore down smaller buildings to make way for the new construction.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Eventually the shoulders were paved and the stairways torn down as the bus plan never took hold.
    — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2023
  • And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The Trojans are in the middle of a tear down at linebacker, leaving pretty much every spot in that room up for grabs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • My old school — which had actually survived the war — was being torn down to build a new one.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • The Sharks are going the other way, tearing down after missing the playoffs each of the past four seasons.
    — Will Graves, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The case led to the ouster of some of the sport’s longest-serving leaders, tearing down empires and creating room for fresh faces.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The plaintiffs who are trying to stop the tear down are also seeking a new vote on whether or not to demolish the building.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
  • Last night, Taylor Swift tore down the night sky and refashioned it into a cocktail dress.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Taylor Swift once said there’s a special place in hell for women who tear down CGI women.
    — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022

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