Example sentences for: asunder

How can you use “asunder” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."

  • Congressional Republicans who support Weld's nomination don't want their party torn asunder in the process.

  • I was walking up the path one day when a colossal explosion rent Africa asunder and a large part of my house fell down before my eyes.

  • The drama is spelled out in that lumbering bible, Das Kapital , where in the deepening crises of capitalism, and the sharpening knives of the class struggle, the end of days arrives, as Marx put it in the penultimate chapter of Volume I, when the capitalist "integument" bursts asunder, and the new society, nurtured in the womb of the old, steps forth as social labor, cooperative labor, communal harmony (the transit workers and Giuliani) in a mutual embrace.


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